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Frank O Gehry
 About Ar. Frank O Gehry
• Using unorthodox materials like corrugated metal and chain link, Gehry creates unexpected, twisted forms
that break conventions of building design.

• His work has been called radical, playful, organic, and sensual.

Born:
• February 28, 1929 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Name at Birth:
• Ephraim Owen Goldberg.
• Gehry, who was born into a Jewish family, changed his name when he married his first wife, Anita Snyder.

Education:
• Los Angeles City College
• University of Southern California. Architecture degree completed in 1954
• Harvard Graduate School of Design. Studied city planning for one year.

MAGGIE’S CENTRE, DUNDEE, Gehry tower,

SCOTLAND VITRA DESIGN MUSEUM, WEIL EM RHEIM, GERMANY Hanover, Germany
 Career of Frank O Gehry:
• Early in his career, Frank Gehry designed houses inspired by modern architects such as Richard Neutra and Frank Lloyd
Wright.

• As Gehry's career expanded, he became known for massive, iconoclastic projects that attracted attention and
controversy. Many buildings by Frank Gehry have become tourist attractions, drawing visitors from around the world.

• Awards:
• 1977: Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture, American Academy of Arts and Letters

• 1989: Pritzker Architecture Prize

• 1992: Wolf Prize in Art, the Wolf Foundation

• 1992: Praemium Imperiale Award, Japan Art Association

• 1994: Dorothy and Lillian Gish Award for lifetime contribution to the arts

• 1998: National Medal of Arts

• 1998: Friedrich Kiesler Prize

• 1999: Lotos Medal of Merit, Lotos Club

• 1999: Gold Medal, American Institute of Architects

• 2000: Lifetime Achievement Award, Americans for the Arts

• More than 100 awards from the American Institute of Architects

• Numerous honorary doctorates and honorary titles

 Famous Buildings by Frank Gehry:
• 1978 and 1987: Gehry House(Gehry's private home), Santa Monica CA
• 1993: Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
• 1997: Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
• 1999: Maggies Centre, Dundee, Scotland
• 2001: Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
• 2004: MIT Stata Complex, Cambridge MA
• 1989-2004: Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles CA
• 2004: Jay Pritzker Music Pavillion, Chicago, Illinois
• 2005: 'MARTa' Museum, Herford, Germany
• 2007: IAC Building, New York City
• 2010: Dr Chau Chak Wing Building Design, the "Treehouse,", University of Technology, Sydney,
Australia.

"I approach each building as a sculptural object, a spatial container, a

space with light and air, a response to context and appropriateness of
feeling and spirit. To this container, this sculpture, the user brings his
baggage, his program, and interacts with it to accommodate his needs.
If he can't do that, I've failed."
-from the 1980 edition of "Contemporary Architects"
 His views about his architecture:
• Much about Architecture or Design:
 “I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the
Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao…Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything  but great architecture. Why do we stand for it?
People are searching for something they don’t have in their lives. There’s an unfulfilled need. My question is, What creates that need, and why doesn’t it
translate into more of a demand for better design in our lives?”
 
• Frank Gehry on whether or not he cares about how the interiors of his buildings are decorated: 
“It’s up to [the designers]. It’s why I don’t micromanage the interiors. People ask me to and I say no. I don’t want to control everything like  Mies
and Frank Lloyd Wright did. I’ll say, ‘I’m going to design the container and the interior spaces. You bring your own stuff to it and make it your own.’ I don’t
impose myself in that way.”

About the Buildings:

• It emphasizes the role of language, power relations, and motivations; in particular it attacks the use of sharp classifications such as
male versus female, white versus black, and imperial versus colonial.

• Postmodernism has influenced many cultural fields, including literary criticism, sociology, linguistics, architecture, visual arts,
and music.

• Postmodernism in architecture is marked by the re-emergence of surface ornament, reference to surrounding buildings in urban
architecture, historical reference in decorative forms, and non-orthogonal angles. It may be a response to the modernist
architectural movement known as the International Style.

• It is characterized by ideas of fragmentation, an interest in manipulating ideas of a structure's surface or skin, non-rectilinear
shapes which serve to distort and dislocate some of the elements of architecture, such as structure and envelope.

• The finished visual appearance of buildings that exhibit the many deconstructivist "styles" and is characterized by a stimulating
unpredictability and a controlled chaos.
 Architecture Style
• Much of Gehry's work falls within the style of Deconstructivism.

• Deconstructivism, also known as DeCon Architecture, is often referred to as post-structuralist in

nature for its ability to go beyond current modalities of structural definition.

• In architecture, its application tends to depart from modernism in its inherent criticism of culturally
inherited givens such as societal goals and functional necessity.

• DeCon structures are not required to reflect specific social or universal ideas, such as speed or
universality of form, and they do not reflect a belief that form follows function.

• Gehry's own Santa Monica residence is a commonly cited example of deconstructivist architecture, as it
was so drastically divorced from its original context, and in such a manner as to subvert its original spatial
intention.

• Gehry’s style at times seems unfinished or even crude, but his work is consistent with the California
‘funk’ art movement in the 1960s and early 1970s, which featured the use of inexpensive found
objects and non-traditional media such as clay to make serious art. Gehry has been called "the apostle
of chain-link fencing and corrugated metal siding".

• 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.

• Most recently, Gehry has combined sensuous curving forms with complex deconstructive massing, achieving
significant new results.
WORKS
 THE DANCING HOUSE ,PRAGUE
• The Dancing House is the nickname given to the Nationale-Nederlanden building
in downtown Prague, Czech Republic .

• It was designed by Croatian-Czech architect Vlado Milunić in co-operation with

Canadian architect Frank Gehry

• The plot is on a vacant riverfront (where the previous building had been
destroyed during the Bombing of Prague in 1945).

• The building was designed in 1992 and completed in 1996.

MIT’S BUILDING
• MIT's Building 10 and Great Dome overlooking Killian Court.

• As early as 1859, the Massachusetts State Legislature was given a proposal for
use of newly opened lands in Back Bay in Boston for a museum and Conservatory
of Art and Science.

• In 1896,The Commonwealth of Massachusetts approved a charter for the

incorporation of the "Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston
Society of Natural History" submitted by William Barton Rogers.

• Rogers sought to establish a new form of higher education to address the

challenges posed by rapid advances in science and technology during the mid-
19th century with which classic institutions were ill-prepared to deal.
 WALT DISNEY HOUSE:
• The Walt Disney Concert Hall at 111 South Grand Avenue
in Downtown Los Angeles, California is the fourth hall of the Los
Angeles Music Center. Bounded by Hope Street, Grand Avenue, 1st
and 2nd Streets, it seats 2,265 people and serves (among other
purposes) as the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra
and the Los Angeles Master Chorale.

• The project was launched in 1992. Frank Gehry delivered

completed designs in 1991. Upon completion in 2003, the project
had cost an estimated $274 million.

• The design of the hall included a large concert organ, completed in

2004, which was used in a special concert for the July 2004
National Convention of the American Guild of Organists .
 GEHRY’S HOUSE
• Location: Santa Monica, California  
• Date:1978  
• Construction System: light wood frame, corrugated metal, chain link

By wrapping the perimeter of the lot with construction materials and

leaving the original house as it was, Gehry created a new space
between the lots lines and the old house.
Low aqua concrete walls were used to mark the boundary

A new roof was added to the additional spaces created

 CORRUGATED METAL walls were used TO build NEW SPACES AS
KITCHEN AND DINING

Wooden plank walls were build in the back yard

Glass cubes were placed over the kitchen and dining to throw in light
INTERIORS OF HIS
BUNGLOW
 Drawing
Axonometric Drawing
 GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM

• Location: BILBAO, SPAIN  

• Date:1997  
• Construction System: STEEL FRAME, TITANIUM SHEATHING

The river walk

Campo Volantin
Footbridge
Puente De
La Salve
THE CONCEPT
THE ATRIUM
ATRIUM SURROUNDED BY THE GALLERIES
GROUND FLOOR THIRD FLOOR

LIGHTING IN THE
GALLERIES
ELEMENTS AND
ELEVATION OF
THE BUILDING
 SKYLIGHTS OVER THE
BUILDING

PARKING

OFFICES

VIEW OF THE SERVICE AREAS

 WATER BODIES

UTS building - dr chau chak wing

• UTS has been working with gehry partners to design a world-class business school
based on the idea of a tree-house structure. as frank gehry has put it, 'a trunk and core
of activity and... branches for people to connect and do their private work.'

The 150 million (AUD) building will have two distinct external facades, one composed
of undulating brick, referencing the sandstone of sydney’s urban brick heritage, 
and the other of large, angled sheets of glass to fracture and mirror the image of 
surrounding buildings.

The project caught the attention of australian-chinese business leader dr chau chak wing who
will donate a total of 25 million (AUD) to UTS; 20 million to support the new building 
and an additional 5 million to create an endowment fund for australia-china student scholarships.
it is the equal largest ever philanthropic gift by an individual for a university in australia.

The 11-storey dr chau chak wing building will stand at the corner of ultimo road and omnibus lane 
on a site that once housed the dairy farmers cooperative and which is currently being used as a car park.
professor milbourne said some elements of the schematic design were still fluid and will be subject 
to some modification, pending community consultation and authority approval.

Construction is due to start in early 2012 and be complete in time for the 2014 academic year.
the dr chau chak wing building is part of the ten-year 1 billion (AUD) UTS city campus masterplan, 
which is helping transform the southern CBD and will deliver a cutting-edge and connected campus
for staff, students and the broader community.
GROUND FLOOR FIRST
FLOOR

THIRD
FLOOR
 Sketches of Frank Gehry 
It is a 2005 American documentary film directed by Sydney Pollack and produced by
Ultan Guilfoyle, about the life and work of the Canadian-American architect Frank
Gehry The film was screened out of competition at the 2006 Cannes Film
Festival.Pollack and Gehry had been friends and mutual admirers for years. The film
features footage of various Gehry-designed buildings, including a hockey arena for
the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and the Walt Disney
Concert Hall. The film includes interviews with other noted figures, including the
following:
• Charles Arnoldi
• Barry Diller
• Michael Eisner
• Hal Foster
• Bob Geldof
• Dennis Hopper
• Charles Jencks
• Philip Johnson
• Thomas Krens (former director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum)
• Herbert Muschamp
• Michael Ovitz
• Robert Rauschenberg
• Edward Ruscha
• Esa-Pekka Salonen
• Julian Schnabel
• Dr Milton Wexler (Gehry's therapist)

The film also discusses work on Gehry's own residence, where his wife Berta had initially
found the building.