This article originally appeared on guggenheim.org/blogs under the title "Nine Guggenheim Exhibitions Designed by Architects," and is used with permission.

Exhibition design by Gae Aulenti. Installation view: The Italian Metamorphosis, 1943?1968, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, October 6, 1994?January 22, 1995. Photo: David Heald

This article originally appeared on guggenheim.org/blogs under the title "Nine Guggenheim Exhibitions Designed by Architects," and is used with permission.Exhibition design is never straightforward, but that is especially true within the highly unconventional architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright?s Guggenheim Museum. Hanging a painting in a traditional ?box? gallery can be literally straightforward, whereas every exhibition at the Guggenheim is the reinvention of one of the world?s most distinctive and iconic buildings. The building mandates site-specific exhibition design?partition walls, pedestals, vitrines, and benches are custom-fabricated for every show. At the same time, these qualities of the building present an opportunity for truly memorable, unique installations. Design happens simultaneously on a micro and macro scale?creating display solutions for individual works of art while producing an overall context and flow that engages the curatorial vision for the exhibition. This is why the museum?s stellar in-house exhibition designers all have an architecture background. They have developed intimat...