Frank Gehry

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Frank Gehry
Born 1929; Toronto, Ontario
Firms Gehry Partners, LLP, Los Angeles, California, USA
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At Great Buildings http://www.GreatBuildings.com/architects/Frank_Gehry.html

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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.

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Gehry Partners, LLP (previously Frank 0. Gehry & Associates Inc.)
12541 Beatrice Street
Los Angeles, CA 90066
vox 310.482.3000
fax 310.482.3006

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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.

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>

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