gehry

frank

sketches
Frank Gehry demonstrates the durability of his compressed cardboard desk
Photo by Ralph Morse (1972)
Gehry ignores the tradi/onal representa/on
of architecture
Floor plans, secAons, and elevaAons are his
kryptonite. Once he creates the basic masses
in sketches – scribbles, as he calls them – he is
no longer interested in the concept of the
designing process. He believes that this is a
trap meant to cage the architect between the
original idea and the reality of construcAon.
However, model making is essenAal to his
experiments with volumes and shapes, and
along with the computer technology he has
been developing to solve structural problems,
he accomplished the impossible: to turn an
abstract sketch into a building. (Keskeys P.,
2016)
He works more like an ar/st rather than an
architect
The sculpturesque of his designs is Gehry’s
idenAfying characterisAc. Curvy forms, prisms,
noAons of movement and restlessness are
present in each one of his projects.
“InnovaAon can only come from people that
are more like arAsts, and Frank Gehry is the
arAst who stands above all others in such
hierarchy.” (White S., Wright G.P., 2003). Thus,
his buildings are works of art, fragile objects
that need to survive in an ever-changing urban
environment.
Frank Gehry Architect Disney Concert Hall
preliminary sketches
Fonda/on Louis Vui<on by Frank Paris
A 2006 sketch by Frank Gehry illustraAng the
proposed Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
Preliminary sketches for the Panama Puente
de Vida Museo
Sketch for Disney Concert Hall.
Frank Gehry's first project in Hong Kong,