‘The Guggenheim’ Book Wins First Prize from AAM

The Guggenheim: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Making of the Modern Museum, the book published to commemorate the museum’s 50th anniversary last year, has been awarded first prize by the American Association of Museums (AAM) in the Books category of the 2010 AAM Publications Design Competition. The competition recognizes excellence in graphic design of museum publications and is the only national juried competition of its kind.

Designed by Pentagram partner Abbott Miller and Susan Brzozowski, the book chronicles the process behind the landmark modernist building. The book’s layout was inspired by architectural journals of the 1950’s, and a full third of the book is comprised of an extraordinarily detailed timeline that describes the museum’s design and construction as told through archival drawings, correspondence and press clippings.

Read more about the book’s design here.