Frank Gehry

Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Ephraim Goldberg, February 28 , 1929 ) is an Architect known for his sculptural approach to building design. He is best known for building curvaceous structures, often covered with reflective metal. His most famous work, and the clearest expression of his style, is the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao , Spain , which is covered in Titanium .
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Born in Toronto , Canada to a Jewish family, Gehry moved at age 17 to California , where he studied at Los Angeles City College before graduating from the University Of Southern California School of Architecture. He then studied city planning at the Harvard Graduate School Of Design . He is today a naturalized American Citizen and lives in Los Angeles .

Gehry's style is derived from Late Modernism . The tortured, warped forms of his structures are considered expressions of the Deconstructivist (DeCon) school of Modernist Architecture . The DeCon movement departs from Modernism in its de-emphasis of societal goals and functional necessity. Unlike Early Modernist structures, DeCon structures are not required to reflect specific social ideas (such as speed or universality of form), and they do not reflect a belief that form follows function. DeCon, which Gehry has continued to refine, is also known as the Santa Monica School Of Architecture . This region of the United States has produced the greatest range of experimentation in the field of DeCon design and contains the largest concentration of the structures.

Gehry is considered a modern architectural icon and celebrity. He came to the attention of the public in 1972 with his "Easy Edges" cardboard furniture. He has appeared in Apple 's black and white " Think Different " pictorial ad campaign that associates offbeat but revered figures with Apple's design philosophy. He even once appeared as himself in an episode of " The Simpsons " in the episode The Seven-Beer Snitch . He also voiced himself on the TV show "Arthur", where he helped Arthur and his friends design a new treehouse. His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. Many museums, firms, and cities seek Gehry's services as a badge of distinction, regardless of the product he delivers.

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Seattle's EMP Music Museum represents this phenomenon at its most extreme. Microsoft 's Paul Allen chose Gehry as the architect of the urban structure to house his public collection of music history artifacts. While the result was undeniably unique, critical reaction came in the form of withering attacks. The bizarre color choices, the total disregard for architectural harmony with the built and natural surroundings, and the mammoth scale led to accusations that Gehry had simply "got it wrong." Admirers of the building remind critics that similar attacks were levelled against the Eiffel Tower in the late 19th century, and that only historical perspective would allow a fair evaluation of the building's merits.

Recently, Gehry has been criticised by some to be repeating himself, critics claiming the disjointed metal panoply that has become Gehry's trademark is perhaps overused. Almost all of his recent work seems derivative of his landmark Bilbao Guggenheim . (It should be noted, however, that while the Guggenheim was completed before Disney Hall , the latter was designed first.) His critics and admirers alike are watching with anticipation to see whether Gehry is able to produce equally compelling forms in a different idiom. He may be able to do so, with a small office complex on the West Side of Manhattan as well as other new projects taking his signature forms, but building them out of glass rather than metal.

WORKS

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Exhibit Center , Merriweather Post Pavilion , and Rouse Company Headquarters, Columbia, Maryland , USA ( 1974 )

Loyola Law School , Los Angeles, California , USA (various buildings, 1978-2002) {Link without Title}

Santa Monica Place , Santa Monica, California , USA ( 1980 )

Edgemar Retail Complex , Santa Monica, California , USA ( 1984 )

Chiat/Day Building , Venice, California , USA ( 1985 - 1991 )

Vitra Design Museum. Weil Am Rhein , Germany ( 1989 )

Frederick Weisman Museum Of Art , University Of Minnesota , Minneapolis, Minnesota , USA ( 1990 ) {Link without Title}

Iowa Advanced Technology Laboratories, University Of Iowa , Iowa City, Iowa , USA ( 1987 - 1992 ) {Link without Title}

Center for the Visual Arts, University Of Toledo , Toledo, Ohio, USA ( 1993 ) {Link without Title}

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'' The Dancing House '' ("Fred and Ginger"), Prague , Czech Republic ( 1995 ) Photo 1 , Photo 2 , Photo 3

Anaheim ICE (formerly Disney ICE), Anaheim, California ( 1995 )

Team Disney Anaheim , Anaheim, California ( 1995 ) {Link without Title}

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao , Bilbao , Spain ( 1997 )

''Der Neue Zollhof'', Düsseldorf , Germany ( 1999 ) {Link without Title}

Vontz Center For Molecular Studies , University Of Cincinnati , Cincinnati, Ohio , USA (1999) {Link without Title}

DG Bank Building , Pariser Platz 3 , Berlin , Germany ( 2000 )

Experience Music Project , Seattle, Washington , USA (2000)

Gehry Tower , Hanover , Germany ( 2001 )

Issey Miyake , Flagship Store, New York, New York , USA (2001)

Peter B. Lewis Building, Weatherhead School Of Management , Case Western Reserve University , Cleveland, Ohio , USA ( 2002 ) [http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/peterblewis/

Richard B. Fisher Center For The Performing Arts , Bard College , Annandale-on-Hudson, New York , USA ( 2003 ) [http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/portfolio/archives/0307bard.asp

Maggie's Centre , Dundee , Scotland (2003) {Link without Title}

Walt Disney Concert Hall , Los Angeles, California , USA (2003)

Ray and Maria Stata Center , Massachusetts Institute Of Technology , Cambridge, Massachusetts , USA (2004) {Link without Title}

Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park , Chicago, Illinois , USA (2004) {Link without Title}

MARTa , Herford , Germany ( 2005 )

IAC/InterActiveCorp West Coast Headquarters, Sunset Strip , West Hollywood , California , USA (2005)

In progress

Art Gallery Of Ontario renovation, Toronto, Ontario , Canada ( 2004 )

Museum of Tolerance, Jerusalem , Israel (expected completion in 2008) {Link without Title}

Science library, Princeton University {Link without Title}

Ohr-O'Keefe Museum, Biloxi , Mississippi , USA (open 2005; all buildings expected to be complete by 2007) {Link without Title}

, Panama City , Panama

Inter-Active Corp. Headquarters , New York City

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AWARDS

, in Venice, California . Designed with help from Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen . It is said that the designers were using a model while trying to decide how to treat the entrance to the building when Oldenburg placed his binoculars in the model. Everyone liked the effect, so it was incorporated into the design.]]

Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture, American Academy Of Arts And Letters ( 1977 )

Pritzker Architecture Prize ( 1989 )

Wolf Prize in Art (Architecture), Wolf Foundation ( 1992 )

Praemium Imperiale Award for Architecture, Japan Art Association (1992)

Dorothy and Lillian Gish Award ( 1994 )

National Medal Of Arts ( 1998 )

Friedrich Kiesler Prize (1998)

Gold Medal , American Institute Of Architects (AIA) ( 1999 )

Gold Medal, Royal Institute Of British Architects (RIBA) ( 2000 )

Gold Medal for Architecture, American Academy of Arts and Letters ( 2002 )

Companion of the Order Of Canada (2002)

HONORARY DOCTORATES

Of Visual Arts; California Institute of the Arts (1987)

Of Fine Arts; Rhode Island School of Design (1987)

Of Engineering; Technical University of Nova Scotia (1989)

Of Fine Arts; Otis Arts Institute (1989)

Of Humanities; Occidental College (1993)

Whittier College (1995)

Of Architecture; Southern California Insitute of Architecture (1997)

Of Laws; University Of Toronto (1998)

University Of Edinburgh (2000)

University of Southern California (2000)

Yale University (2000)

Harvard University (2000)

ADDITIONAL IMAGES

The following are additional images of Gehry's works.

Image:Prague - Dancing Housejpg

"http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Vrhbosna/Dancing_House" class="copylinks">Dancing House

Image:Guggenheim-bilbao-jan05jpg

"http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Vrhbosna/Guggenheim_Museum_Bilbao" class="copylinks">Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Image:DG Bank Interior, Berlinjpg

"http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Vrhbosna/DG_Bank_building" class="copylinks">DG Bank Building atrium

Image:Empjpg

"http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Vrhbosna/Experience_Music_Project" class="copylinks">Experience Music Project southeast corner

Image:Fisher At Bard Collegejpg

"http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Vrhbosna/Richard_B_Fisher_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts" class="copylinks">Richard B Fisher Center For The Performing Arts

Image:Lightmatter Disneyhall5jpg

"http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Vrhbosna/Walt_Disney_Concert_Hall" class="copylinks">Walt Disney Concert Hall

Image:Wfm Stata Centerjpg

"http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Vrhbosna/Stata_Center" class="copylinks">Stata Center

Image:PBLewis1JPGPeter B Lewis Building, Home Of The

"http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Vrhbosna/Weatherhead_School_of_Management" class="copylinks">Weatherhead School Of Management

	Before	Gordon Bunshaft and<br> Oscar Niemeyer
	Title	Pritzker Prize
	Years	1989

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