Author: Jean-Louis Cohen
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 2080248502
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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An authoritative compendium on the main masterpieces of Frank Gehry, including 480 illustrations and photographs, produced in collaboration with Cahiers d’Art. Experimenting with a range of materials from cheap mass-produced items to space-age titanium, and using 3D computer modeling as an architectural tool, Frank Gehry’s buildings are remarkable and surprising, united by the sense of movement they convey. His projects flow, curve, bend, and crumple in novel and unexpected ways, subverting traditional building norms. From his own home in Santa Monica to the undulating Beekman Tower in New York, from the shining curves of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao to the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, and his most recent construction, Luma Arles, Gehry has left his indelible mark on the history of architectural design. Forty of the renowned architect’s most remarkable works are presented by architect and critic Jean-Louis Cohen, alongside views of the interiors and exteriors of each building. This tour includes many of Gehry’s works throughout the United States and abroad, such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the one-of-a-kind “Binoculars Building” in Los Angeles, and the beloved “Dancing House” in Prague.
Author: Paul Goldberger
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307946398
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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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.
Author: Francesco Dal Co
Publisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9781780750064
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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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
Author: Jinny Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781592237906
Category : Architects
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Lovers of beauty and creativity will experience Gehry's deconstructive designs in the interactive Frank Gehry in Pop-Up. The curious will peruse his personal history and lifeworks to get to know the man behind the buildings.In addition to amazing photographs, Frank Gehry in Pop-Up features three-dimensional, full-spread pop-ups of the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Venice Beach House in California, Der Neue Zollhof in Dusseldorf, Experience Music Project in Seattle and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.Readers will compare and contrast Gehry's many different sides, from the whimsical laid-back Californian to the closet elitist-and sometimes obsessive perfectionist.
Author: Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415239950
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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This book focuses on two projects, Gehry's unrealised proposal for the rehabilitation of Berlin's Museum Island and his soon to be completed Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
Author: Frederic Migayrou
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 3791354426
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Featuring fifty of Frank Gehry’s most important projects, this lavish monograph presents the full range of the architect’s work from the past six decades. Arranged chronologically, this book follows the arc of Gehry’s career, from his early residential projects through the public and cultural facilities his studio is currently focused on. The book explores the evolution of Gehry’s work, and how he has ceaselessly embraced formal, technological and constructional innovations, while his practice has never wavered from his vision. It examines his work in the context of the urban environment, showing how Gehry continually strives to challenge the idea of the city, creating urban buildings that respond to their surroundings without trivializing them. The buildings profiled here—including the Vitra International Furniture Manufacturing Facility and Design Museum in Switzerland, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the 8 Spruce Street Skyscraper (Beekman Tower) in New York, and the Fondation Louis Vuitton—are represented in dazzling color photographs as well as preparatory drawings, plans, and models. From his early years working within the L.A. Art Scene, to his Pritzker-winning recognition, to his pioneering research into the application of computer-aided-design in all aspects of the building design process from the first sketches to the final elements of construction, Frank Gehry, now in his eighth decade, continues to surprise and inspire the public. This informative, fascinating volume is a must-have for his ardent fans and anyone interested in architecture.
Author: Frank O. Gehry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Author: Deborah Blumenthal
Publisher: Kar-Ben Publishing ®
ISBN: 1728458609
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life! One building looks like it's been wrapped in tinfoil. Another looks like it's buried under a pile of paint chips. Frank Gehry has been called “the most important architect of our age”. As a child, his parents thought of him as but nothing but a dreamer who wouldn’t amount to anything. Even so, Frank kept dreaming and playing, eventually following his passions and becoming an architect who created astounding buildings that to this day attract millions of visitors worldwide. “Being a Chicagoan, I know Frank Gehry's work in our beloved Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park. Frank, Who Liked to Build gives young readers a fascinating introduction to the creative vision behind one of the greatest architects of our time.” — Sherri Duskey Rinker, author of the Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site Series”
Author: Anne-Line Roccati
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 2081332779
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This volume recounts the story of an architectural, environmental, and technological adventure. It details the challenges posed by creating the newest addition to the Parisian skyline—a building that was conceived by Frank Gehry as the Fondation Louis Vuitton’s premier work of art. Inspired by the new cultural institution, the book’s carefully sequenced chapters reflect each episode in the series of challenges that arose. A work of reference on the process of designing and building the Fondation, the book offers solutions for architecture professionals while simultaneously remaining accessible and pertinent to the general reader. Featuring interviews with leading architects such as Frank Gehry and Paul Chemetov, technical explanations by the engineers who designed the building, historical essays, and a flash code to additional online content, the book also includes a diverse range of illustrations—from the Jardin d’Acclimation’s archival drawings, to ground plans, elevations, spectacular views of the construction site, and 3-D simulations, as well as formal portraits of the construction workers by Charles Fréger. Together, the rich ensemble of elements demonstrates the vibrant atmosphere of this creative laboratory. The volume unveils itself little by little, just like Frank Gehry’s edifice itself, revealing surprise after surprise in accordance with an unwavering, strong, and coherence design principle.
Author: Frank O. Gehry
Publisher: Mit Press
ISBN: 9780262182416
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Drawing was Frank Gehry's way of "thinking aloud" as a master architect. Tracing this part of Gehry's creative process through 32 major projects, both built and unbuilt, this volume features more than 900 illustrations.
