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
his work cited as being among the most important
Pritzker Prize
works of contemporary architecture in 2010,
Premium Imperiale
National Awards of arts which led Vanity Fair to label him as “the most
important architect of our age”
Website foga.com

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).
1922 HOLLYWOOOD BOWL,
AMPHITHEATRE,LOS ANGLES

1989
VITRA DESIGN MEUSEUM,
GERMANY

1991 GEHRY RESIDENCE,

CALIFORNIA,USA

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

1997 GUGGENHEIM MEUSEUM,

SPAIN

GEHRY TOWER,
SPORT DEPARTMENT
1999
BUILDING,HANOVER,GERMANY

2000

WALT DISNEY CONCRETE HALL ,

LA,USA
2005 MARTE HERFORD,
ART MUSEUM,GERMANY

2004 JAY PRITZKER PAVILLION,

CHICAGO

2007 IAC BUILDING,

INTERACTIVECORP’
S
HEADQUATER,NEW
YORK

2007

GUGGENHIEM ABU DHABI,

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
2007 LOU RUVO CENTRE FOR BRAIN HEALTH,
CHICAGO

8 SPRUCE STREET,
2011
NEWYORK

2011

NEW WORLD CENTRE,

FLORIDA ,TORONTO
 Works in progress
Under-construction

• 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, Łódź,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)
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
• Location: BILBAO, SPAIN  
• Date:1997  
• Construction System: STEEL FRAME,
TITANIUM SHEATHING

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
 Campo The river walk

LOCATION
Volantin
Footbridge

Puente De La
Salve

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

Ground floor plan

GALLERIES
LIGHTING IN GALLERIES
PARTITIONS IN GALLERIES
RECTANGULAR LOFTS UNDER SKYLIGHTS
RECTANGULAR LOFTS UNDER SKYLIGHTS
 PARKING

OFFICES

The service areas

Views of the service areas
LANDSCAPE 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

 THE ORIGINAL BUNGLOW

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.

THE NEWBUNGLOW
Low aqua concrete walls were used to
mark the boundary

THE CONCRETE LAYER

 CORRUGATED METAL WAS USED

CORRUGATED METAL walls were used

TO build NEW SPACES AS KITCHEN
AND DINING

THE CORRUGATED METAL LAYER

Wooden plank walls were build
in the back yard

THE WOODEN LAYER

A new roof was added to the
additional spaces created

LAYER OF FLOOR
 Chain link fencing was used
Chain link fencing was used to
enclose the floor added.

LAYER OF CHAIN LINK FENCING

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

LAYER OF GLASS
THE EXTERIOR LOOK
RELATIONSHIP OF THE NEW AND THE OLD
HOUSE
 PLANS

GROUND FIRST
FLOOR FLOOR
PLAN PLAN

ENTRANCE
Backyard Living
and swimming
kITCHENroom pool
THE RELATION IN THE INTERIORS
DISNEY CONCERT HALL
 GENERAL INFO
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 1999–2003

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
WORKS
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