Which architect designed the Guggenheim Museum in New York, completed after his death?

Frank Lloyd Wright designed New York’s Guggenheim Museum, which was completed after his death. Wright died on 9 April 1959, while the museum opened on 21 October 1959.

The project occupied Wright during the final years of his life. He developed a bold design centered on a large rotunda and a spiraling gallery ramp, departing sharply from the boxlike forms common in many conventional museums. The building’s curved geometry also made the display of paintings more complicated than in ordinary galleries.

William Muschenheim and other members of Wright’s office helped carry the work through its final stages. The completed building became one of the best-known examples of Wright’s architecture and one of New York’s most distinctive cultural landmarks.

The museum is sometimes confused with the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao because both belong to the Guggenheim network. Bilbao was designed by Frank Gehry, whereas the New York museum was Wright’s work.