FRANK O GEHRY

Frank O Gehry
Full Name Frank Owen Goldberg

Born February 28,1929(age

87) Toronto, Canada

Nationality Canadian,USA

Education University of Southern

California

Occupation Architect

Awards AIA Gold Medal Order

of Canada Pritzker Prize his work cited as being among the most important
Premium Imperiale works of contemporary architecture in 2010, which
National Awards of arts led Vanity Fair to label him as “the most
important architect of our age”
Website foga.com
*Vanity Fair –monthly magazine of US
Practice Gehry Partners LLP
His Architectural style…
Deconstructivism
It is an architectural movement or style influenced by deconstruction that encourages
radical freedom of form and the open manifestation of complexity in a building rather
than strict attention to functional concerns and conventional design elements (as right
angles or grids).

“Disassembly of the building components and reassembly in a new way is

inherent in the style”
1922 HOLLYWOOOD BOWL,
AMPHITHEATRE,LOS
ANGLES

1989
VITRA DESIGN
GERMAN
MEUSEUM,
Y

1991 GEHRY
RESIDENCE,
CALIFORNIA,
USA

1993
WEISMAN ART
MEUSEUM
MINNEAPOLIS,USA
1996
DANCING
HOUSE,
CRECZH
REPUBLIC

1997 GUGGENHEIM MEUSEUM,

SPAI
N

GEHRY TOWER, SPORT

DEPARTMENT
1999
BUILDING,HANOVER,
GERMANY

200
0
WALT DISNEY CONCRETE
HALL , LA,USA
200 MARTE HERFORD,
5 ART MUSEUM,
GERMANY

200 JAY PRITZKER

4 PAVILLION, CHICAGO

200 IAC BUILDING,

7 INTERACTIVECOR
P’ S
HEADQUATER,
NEW YORK

200
7
GUGGENHIEM ABU
DHABI, UNITED ARAB
EMIRATES
200 LOU RUVO CENTRE FOR BRAIN
7 HEALTH, CHICAGO

8 SPRUCE
2011
STREET,
NEWYORK

2011

NEW WORLD
CENTRE,
FLORIDA ,
TORONTO
 Under-construction
Works in progress
• Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates(Expected completion 2017)
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Underground expansion. (Announced October 2006. Construction
began 2010.)
Proposed
• Torre La Sagrera in Barcelona, Spain
• Grand Avenue Project, Los Angeles, California
• Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial, District of Columbia (Proposed – No start date yet)
• Ocean Avenue Project, Santa Monica, California
• Le Parc des Ateliers SNCF, Arles, France
• Mirvish Towers & Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto, Canada (Proposed – No start date yet)
• Jazz Bakery, Culver City, California
• Luxury HOTEL, apartments and offices, Sønderborg, Denmark
• Cultural Center, Łód ,Poland (Design not yet accepted)
• Dudamel Hall, Barquisimeto, Venezuela
• Battersea Power Station redevelopment Phase 3 (the "High Street" phase), London, England (as joint architect along with
Foster + Partners)
• 8150 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California

Un-built
• Le Clos Jordanne Winery, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada
• Museum of Tolerance, Jerusalem, Israel(Gehry stepped down from the project in March 2010)
• Atlantic Yards, New York City, New York (Left project in June 2009)
• Corcoran Gallery expansion, Washington, D.C. (Project was abandoned in 2005)
• Guggenheim Museum expansion campus in downtown New York, New York (Project was abandoned in December 2002)
World Trade Center site Performing Arts Complex, New York City, New York (Announced October 2004. Left project in 2014)
Let’s talk about
some of his master
piece…
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
– Spain
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao – Spain
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao building represents a
magnificent example of the most ground-breaking 20th-
century architecture. With site area of 32,500 m2 , of
which 11,000 m2 area dedicated to exhibition space, the
Museum represents an architectural landmark of audacious
configuration and innovating design, providing a seductive
backdrop for the art exhibited in it.
Space Distribution

With a total 24,000 m2 (260,000 sq ft), of

which 11,000 m2 (120,000 sq ft) are
dedicated to exhibition space, it had more exhibition
space than the three Guggenheim collections in New
York and Venice combined at that time. The 11,
000 m2 of exhibition space are distributed over
nineteen galleries, ten of which follow a classic
orthogonal plan that can be identified from the
exterior by their stone finishes. The remaining nine
galleries are irregularly shaped and can be identified
from the outside by their swirling organic forms and
titanium cladding. The largest gallery measures 30
meters wide and 130 meters long (98 ft × 427
ft)
• Location: BILBAO, SPAIN
• Date:1997
• Construction System: STEEL
FRAME, TITANIUM SHEATHING

GUGGENHEIM
 Campo The river walk
Volantin
Footbridge

Puente De La
Salve

N
HIGHLIGHTER FOR A
BILB O
THE
CONCEPTUAL SKETCHES
view from Puente De La Salve
View from Campo Volantin
Footbridge
CALM AND
ENTRANCE TO THE
THE
SKYLIGHT OVER THE
OTHER SOURCES OF LIGHT IN
THE ATRIUM
Atrium surrounded by exhibition
galleries
SUSPENDED
WALKWAYS
THE terrace
 Third floor plan

Ground floor plan

LIGHTING IN
PARTITIONS IN
RECTANGULAR LOFTS
UNDER
RECTANGULAR LOFTS
UNDER
The service areas
Views of the service areas
LANDSCAPE
S H AD E S
La n d s c a
FURNITURE
Water bodies
Water bodies
Water bodies
Water bodies
 Criticism

As every building faces criticism so as Guggenheim Museum did. Art critic Brian O‘
Doherty criticized the museum's interior effect, saying "Once you get indoors things are a
little different. Even the so-called site-specific works didn't look too happy to me. Most of
the interior spaces are too vast." He went on to describe how works by Braque, Picasso
and Rodchenko “ looked absurd" and tiny on the museum's walls.
The Gehry House
Photo coutesy: Thomas mayer

• Location: Santa Monica, California

• Date:1978
• Construction System: light wood
frame, corrugated metal, chain link

The Gehry House

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By wrapping the perimeter of the lot with

construction materials and leaving the original
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THE
NEWBUNGLOW
Low aqua concrete walls were used to
mark the boundary

THE CONCRETE
 CORRUGATED METAL WAS USED

CORRUGATED METAL walls were used

TO build NEW SPACES AS
KITCHEN AND DINING

THE CORRUGATED METAL

Wooden plank walls were build
in the back yard

THE WOODEN
A new roof was added to the
additional spaces
created

LAYER OF
 Chain
linkCfheanicninlignkwfaesnucisnegdwtoase
nucselodse the floor
added.

LAYER OF CHAIN LINK

Glass cubes were placed over the
kitchen and dining to
throw in light

LAYER OF
THE EXTERIOR
RELATIONSHIP OF THE NEW AND
THE OLD HOUSE
 PLAN
S
GROU FIRS
ND T
FLO
FLOOR
OR
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ENTRA
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Backyard
THE RELATION IN THE
DISNEY CONCERT HALL
 General information
Location 111 South Grand Avenue Los
Angeles, California U.S.A.

Coordinates 34°03′19″N
118°15′00″W
Public transit Civic Center/Grand Park
(Regional Connector future)

Owner Los Angeles Music Center

Type Concert hall

Seating type Reserved

Capacity 2,
265
Built 1999–20
03
Opened October 24,
2003
Construction cost $130 million (plus $110 million for parking garage)
 Disney Concert Hall

The hall is in a vineyard seating configuration, similar to the

Berliner Philharmonie by Hans Scharoun.
Lillian Disney made an initial gift of $50 million in 1987 to build
a performance venue as a gift to the people of Los Angeles and a
tribute to Walt Disney's devotion to the arts and to the city.
The Frank Gehry-designed building opened on October 24,
2003.

Performers and critics agreed that it was well worth this extra
time taken by the time the hall opened to the public.[5] During
the summer rehearsals a few hundred VIPs were invited to sit in
including donors, board members and journalists. Writing about
these rehearsals, Los Angeles Times
The walls and ceiling of the hall are finished with Douglas-fir while
the floor is finished with oak. Columbia Showcase & Cabinet Co. Inc.,
based in Sun Valley, CA, produced all of the ceiling panels, wall
panels and architectural woodwork for the main auditorium and lobbies.
The Hall's reverberation time is approximately 2.2 seconds unoccupied
and 2.0 seconds occupied.

After the construction, modifications were made to the Founders

Room exterior; while most of the building's exterior was designed with
stainless steel given a matte finish, the Founders Room and Children's
Amphitheater were designed with highly polished mirror-like panels.
The reflective qualities of the surface were amplified by the concave
sections of the Founders Room walls. Some residents of the
neighboring condominiums suffered glare caused by sunlight that was
reflected off these surfaces and concentrated in a manner similar to a
parabolic mirror.
SITE
PLAN
FLOOR
PLAN
SECTION
INTERIOR
WOR
KS
Thank you

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