The most comprehensive monograph of the world-famous architect Frank Gehry (b.1929) Revised and expanded to include his most recent projects including the New York residential tower (2011) Detailed presentation of approximately 250 buildings and projects from North America and Europe Features all Gehry's best-known projects including the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum (1997), the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles (2003) and the Experience Music Project in Seattle (2000) Includes essays by renowned critics Francesco Dal Co and Kurt W Forster
Here, from Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Paul Goldberger, is the first full-fledged critical biography of Frank Gehry, undoubtedly the most famous architect of our time. Goldberger follows Gehry from his humble origins—the son of working-class Jewish immigrants in Toronto—to the heights of his extraordinary career. He explores Gehry’s relationship to Los Angeles, a city that welcomed outsider artists and profoundly shaped him in his formative years. He surveys the full range of his work, from the Bilbao Guggenheim to the Walt Disney Concert Hall in L.A. to the architect’s own home in Santa Monica, which galvanized his neighbors and astonished the world. He analyzes his carefully crafted persona, in which an amiable surface masks a driving ambition. And he discusses his use of technology, not just to change the way a building looks, but to revolutionize the very practice of the field. Comprehensive and incisive, Building Art is a sweeping view of a singular artist—and an essential story of architecture’s modern era.
The evolution of a Frank Gehry building, from planning and design and architect-client interaction to construction; with color illustrations throughout.
For the first time, a book looks at internationally famed architect Frank Gehry as an artist. This intimate portrait of Gehry's creative process reveals the details not only of how he works, but also of his total staff and office environment. Among 10 featured projects - realized and unrealized - are models and drawings for the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Ray and Maria Stata Center at MIT, Jerusalem Museum of Tolerance, Corcoran Gallery and School of Art, Venice Gateway and Puente de Vida Museo. There has never been an architectural monograph like this.
Text in English and German. After his deconstructive beginnings in the eighties and nineties, Frank Gehry increasingly practised a very plastic form of architecture. His expressively sculptural cultural buildings, the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, his project for the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and above all the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao (see Opus 32), have shaped the architectural awareness of our period and provided exemplary artistic alternatives to the architectural canon of Modernism. Within Gehry's rapidly growing volume of work the comparatively small energy forum for the Minden-Ravensburg Electricity Company (EMR) plays a particularly striking role insofar as the extraordinarily complex brief -- almost contradictory functions had to be blended in a very cramped space, compelled the architect to use highly differentiated forms and materials. In this way something like a primal model of sculptural building emerged, a massively fissured, subtly lit structure that explains itself inside with amazing naturalness, making visitors gasp with its changing spatial situations as an exhibition and events centre, exploding all conventions as an office building and translating the theme of energy into sensual forms by architectural means as the electricity company's technical distribution centre. The old dictum 'form follows function' acquires a new and radical quality in the architecture of the Energieforum. In addition to the presentation of the energy forum in Bad Oeynhausen this book contains an illustrated survey of all other buildings by Frank Gehry in Europe.
Most recently, Gehry's work has experimented with complex forms and sculptural geometries and includes a group of significant cultural projects, including the Vitra Design Museum in Germany, the American Center in Paris, and the Frederick R. Weisman Museum at the University of Minnesota.
