Frank Gehry
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| Frank Gehry | |
| Born | 1929; Toronto, Ontario |
| Firms | Gehry Partners, LLP, Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Notes | |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/architects/Frank_Gehry.html |
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[edit] Works
- American Center, at Paris, France, 1988. Archiplanet page
- California Aerospace Museum, at Los Angeles, CA, 1982 to 1984. Archiplanet page
- Edgemar Development, at Santa Monica, CA, 1984. Archiplanet page
- Experience Music Project, at Seattle, Washington, 1999 to 2000. Archiplanet page GreatBuildings page
- Fishdance Restaurant, at Kobe, Japan, 1986 to 1989. Archiplanet page
- Gehry House, at Santa Monica, California, 1979 and 1987. Archiplanet page GreatBuildings page
- Goldwyn Branch Library, at Hollywood, CA, 1982. Archiplanet page
- Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, at Bilbao, Spain, 1997. Archiplanet page GreatBuildings page
- Herman Miller Facilities, at Rocklin, CA, 1985. Archiplanet page
- Hollywood Bowl, at Hollywood, CA, 1970 to 1982. Archiplanet page
- Joseph Magnin Store, at Costa Mesa, CA, 1968. Archiplanet page
- Loyola University Law School, at Los Angeles, CA, 1981 to 1984. Archiplanet page
- Los Angeles Children's Museum, at Los Angeles, CA, 1979. Archiplanet page
- Norton House, at Venice, CA, 1983. Archiplanet page
- O'Neill Hay Barn, at San Juan Capistrano, CA, 1968. Archiplanet page
- Ron Davis Studio and House, at Malibu, CA, 1970 to 1972. Archiplanet page
- Rouse Company Headquarters, at Columbia, MD, 1974. Archiplanet page
- Ruscha House, at 29 Palms, CA, 1977. Archiplanet page
- Santa Monica Place, at Santa Monica, CA, 1973 to 1980. Archiplanet page
- Schnabel Residence, at Brentwood, CA, 1986. Archiplanet page
- University of Minnesota Art Museum, at Minneapolis, MN, 1990. Archiplanet page
- Venice Beach House, at Venice, CA, 1986. Archiplanet page GreatBuildings page
- Vitra Design Museum, at Weil-am-Rhein, Germany, 1987 to 1989. Archiplanet page GreatBuildings page
- Walt Disney Concert Hall, at Los Angeles, CA, 1989 to 2004. Archiplanet page
- Winton Guest House, at Wayzata, Minnesota, 1984 to 1986. Archiplanet page
- Wosk Residence, at Beverly Hills, CA, 1982. Archiplanet page
- Yale Psychiatric Institute, at New Haven, CT, 1985 to 1989. Archiplanet page
- Venice Beach House, Venice, California. Archiplanet page
- IAC Building, New York, New York Archiplanet page
- Peter B. Lewis Building, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
- Transformation AGO, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
[edit] Discussion
Frank Gehry was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1929. He studied at the Universities of Southern California and Harvard, before he established his first practice, Frank O. Gehry and Associates in 1963. In 1979 this practice was succeeded by the firm Gehry & Krueger Inc.
Over the years, Gehry has moved away from a conventional commercial practice to a artistically directed atelier. His deconstructed architectural style began to emerge in the late 1970s when Gehry, directed by a personal vision of architecture, created collage-like compositions out of found materials. Instead of creating buildings, Gehry creates ad-hoc pieces of functional sculpture.
Gehry's architecture has undergone a marked evolution from the plywood and corrugated-metal vernacular of his early works to the distorted but pristine concrete of his later works. However, the works retain a deconstructed aesthetic that fits well with the increasingly disjointed culture to which they belong.
In the large-scale public commissions he has received since he converted to a deconstructive aesthetic, Gehry has explored the classical architecture themes. In these works he melds formal compositions with an exploded aesthetic. Most recently, Gehry has combined sensous curving forms with complex deconstructive massing, achieving significant new results.
[edit] Details
- Recipient of the Japan Art Association's Praemium Imperiale, 1992
- Recipient, Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1989.
- Recipient, AIA Gold Medal Award, 1999.
Gehry Partners, LLP (previously Frank 0. Gehry & Associates Inc.)
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[edit] References
Barbara Isenberg. Conversations with Frank Gehry. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.ISBN-13 978-0-307-26800-6. ISBN 0307268004.
"Gehry at MIT", by Michael J. Crosbie, ArchitectureWeek No. 198, 2004.0623, pD1.1.
"Gehry's Disney Concert Hall", by ArchitectureWeek, ArchitectureWeek No. 175, 2003.1217, pD1.1.
- "Notes from Manhattan: High Line to WTC", by Michael J. Crosbie, ArchitectureWeek No. 531, 2011.0907, p B1.1.
Kurt W. Forster, Hadley Soutter Arnold, Francesco Dal Co. Frank O. Gehry : The Complete Works. Monacelli Press, September 1998. ISBN 1-8852-5463-6.— A beautiful book with multiple Five Star reviews from Amazon.com readers. Available at Amazon.com
Frank Gehry Pritzker Prize — Several pages of good background information, at the Pritzker Prize site.
Robert A. M. Stern. Modern Classicism. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1988. ISBN 0-8478-0848-3. NA682.C55. P90.
Dennis Sharp. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Architects and Architecture. New York: Quatro Publishing, 1991. ISBN 0-8230-2539-X. NA40.I45. p62.</font>
[edit] External Links
- http://www.http://www.birdseyetourist.com/?p=1460
- Critic's Notebook: To some architects, beauty is not a concern, by Christopher Hawthorne, Los Angeles Times, 2010.09.26
