Frank Gehry (1929) was born in a Jewish family in Toronto on February 28th. /kloc-immigrated to California after 0/7 years, and became a famous contemporary deconstructionist architect, famous for designing buildings with strange irregular curves and sculptural appearance. He is now a naturalized American citizen and lives in Los Angeles. He is a famous professor of architecture at Columbia University in new york. Gehry's design style originated from post-modernism, and the most famous building is the MuseoGuggenheimBilbao with titanium roof in Bilbao, Spain.

Chinese name: Frank Gehry.

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Nationality: Canada

Place of birth: Toronto, Canada

Date of birth:1February 28, 929

Occupation: architect

Graduate School: University of Southern California

Major achievements: Pritzker Architecture Award

Wolf architectural art award

Representative works: Walt Disney Concert Hall, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao and European Disney Entertainment Center.

biography

Frank Gehry (1929) was born in a Jewish family in Toronto.

/kloc-immigrated to California after 0/7 years old, and became a famous contemporary deconstructionist architect, famous for designing buildings with strange irregular curves and sculptural appearance. He is a naturalized American and lives in Los Angeles. He is a famous professor of architecture at Columbia University in new york. Gary's design style originated from post-modernism, and the most famous building is the MuseoGuggenheimBilbao in Spain, which has a titanium roof.

From 65438 to 0929, Frank Gehry was born in Toronto, Canada, and then transferred to California, where he obtained a master's degree in architecture from the University of Southern California. After graduation, I worked in urban planning at Harvard University.

Before starting his own company, Franco. Gehryandasssociates, Inc. in 1962, he and Victor Gruehn (1953- 1954) and Pereira &; Lyckman (1957- 1958), Andre Mondet. He has served as an assistant professor at the University of Southern California (1972- 1973) and the University of California, Los Angeles (1988- 1989), Harvard University (1983) and Rice University (1. 1982, 1985, 1987, 1988 and 1989. He is a professor of architecture at Yale University. 1984, EliotNoyes, Harvard University. 1986 10 Walker Art Center held an important retrospective exhibition on his works. The exhibition toured from Minneapolis to Atlanta, Houston, Toronto and Los Angeles, and closed at the Whitney Museum of American Art in new york. 1974 Elected member of American Institute of Architects (AIA). 1987 became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Literature, 199 1 became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science. 1989 won the Pritzker-Schell Architecture Award, and was nominated as the director of the American Institute of Architecture in Rome in the same year. 1992 won the Wolff architectural art award, and 1992 was nominated as the winner of the highest honor award in the field of architecture, which was awarded by the Japan Art Association. 1994 became the first winner of LillianGishAward Lifelong Contribution Art Award. In the same year, he was awarded the title of academician by the National Design Institute. He received honorary doctorates from California Institute of Arts and Technology, Nova Scotia University of Technology, Rhode Island School of Design, california institute of the arts, Otis College of Art and Parsons School of Design. He is also the champion of ArnoldW. Bruner Architecture Memorial Award of American Academy of Arts and Literature.

design style

Frank Gehry was inspired by the culture of the University of Southern California, but lacked an idealized form. Gary has extensively absorbed abstract fragments from the art world and sporadic supplements from the urban environment. Gary's works are quite unique and individual, and most of his works are rarely mixed with socialization and ideology. He usually uses polygonal planes, inclined structures, inverted forms and various material forms, and applies visual effects to patterns. Gary broke the traditional custom with fracture geometry. For him, division means exploring a vague social order.

In many cases, Gary broke away from form and function, and built not a complete architectural structure, but a successful idea and an abstract urban institution. In many ways, he regards architectural works as sculptures, and this three-dimensional structural diagram has many forms through centralized processing. Art is often the source of Gary's inspiration, and his interest in art can be known from his architectural works. At the same time, art made him use the open architectural structure for the first time, which made people feel that it was an invisible change, not a deliberate change. The buildings designed by Gary are usually surreal, abstract and occasionally deeply confusing, so the information it conveys is often misunderstood. Nevertheless, the architecture designed by Gary still presents its unique, noble and mysterious atmosphere.

Gary seems to be out of place in American cities. He used a variety of materials and architectural forms to integrate humor, mystery and dreams into his architectural system. He once said: "I like this invisible beauty in the process of construction, and this beauty is often lost in the process of technological manufacturing." In his early works, Gary boldly used open space, various raw materials and informal forms to build. Gehry's architecture also includes ordinary processes, such as extending life, evolving life and growing life.

Introduction of works

Gehry's works are quite unique, and most of them are rarely mixed with socialization and ideology. He usually uses polygonal planes, inclined structures, inverted forms and various material forms, and applies visual effects to patterns. Many times, he regards architectural works as sculptures, and this three-dimensional structural diagram has many forms through centralized processing.

Gary seems to be out of place in American cities. He used a variety of materials and architectural forms to integrate humor, mystery and dreams into his architectural system. In his early work, Gary boldly used open space, various raw materials and informal forms to build buildings.

Gary's design covers a wide range, including shopping centers, houses, parks, museums, banks, restaurants, plywood furniture and curved chairs. Moreover, the plywood chair is quite popular in the market, so critics criticized him for acting in the name of art, but Gary didn't stop writing because of it. The materials he used ranged from wood accepted by the public to unexpected wire mesh. Although his works are different from other works to a great extent, they are more or less related in some categories. But compared with the traditional urban function, form, space and overall appearance, Gary's works are still quite superior. He created a unique style and opened a new chapter in architectural form.

Gary found * * * obvious and vague, natural and artificial, new and old, dark and transparent, closed and empty between architecture and art, which is the most striking contrast between Gary and other architectural works, so Gary is known as "Picasso in architecture".

Influenced by the urban cultural characteristics of Los Angeles and local radical artists, Gehry's early buildings are keen to explore the application of cheap materials such as barbed wire, corrugated board and rough metal plate in architecture, and adopt various means such as collage, mixing, juxtaposition, dislocation, blurred boundary, decentralization, no hierarchy and no dimension. To challenge people's established architectural values and bound imagination. His works caused an uproar in the architectural world. Those who love them are praised as geniuses, and those who hate them are destroyed as garbage. Gary is as creative and unstoppable as ever. Finally, more and more people tolerate and understand Gary, and more and more realize the value of Gary's creation to the world.

Main work

Walt Disney Concert Hall

museo guggenheim bilbao

Chiat/Day/Mojo company headquarters

EMR communication Yu technology center Vitera company head office

Norton residence

European Disney Entertainment Center

My own house in Santa Monica

Vitera furniture museum

University of Cincinnati Molecular Research Center

Xin customs building

Indiana avenue residence

Weismann Museum

Aiwa university laboratory building

Holland International Office Building

Paris American Center

University of Toledo Visual Arts Center

Bank of Berlin Kangtai Nashi Coffee House

Aichimar shopping mall

loyola college benitez

Anahan community skating center

Boston Children's Museum

Maggie cancer center

Holland House Prague

Ballroom (Dutch National Life Insurance Company Building)

fondation louis vuitton

Appreciation of masterpieces

architectural works

museo guggenheim bilbao

Location: Spain

Design: Frank F.O.Gehry Guggenheim Museum was officially completed and opened in 1997, which is part of the whole urban renewal plan of the industrial city of Bilbao. At the beginning, the project cost 1 billion dollars. The whole structure was gradually designed by California architect FFrankO. With the help of a set of computer software used by V Aerodynamics, Gary. The museum uses glass, steel and limestone as building materials, and some surfaces are covered with titanium, which echoes the city's long shipbuilding tradition. The museum covers an area of 24,000 square meters, with an exhibition area of 1 1000 square meters. It is divided into 19 exhibition halls, one of which is one of the largest art galleries in the world, with an area of130m by 30m square. This cultural attraction has attracted many people to visit Bilbao, and the number of tourists has increased from 260,000 to 6,543.8+0,000 every year. Museums have revitalized the local economy (the net value of industrial products in Basque province has increased by as much as five times) and brought new vitality to the price-earnings ratio. 1997, a groundbreaking architectural masterpiece was born in Bilbao, a medium-sized city in Spain. With its beautiful shape, unique structure and brand-new materials, it immediately attracted the attention of the whole world, and was exclaimed by the press as "a miracle" and called "the most meaningful and beautiful museum in the world". It is the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

199 1 year, the municipal government of the northern Spanish city of Bilbao, together with the Guggenheim Foundation, made a far-reaching decision on the future development of this city: Frank Gehry, an American architect, was invited to design the Guggenheim Museum to be built in this city.

Luggage factory

When FrankGehry designed this Monogram canvas handbag for Louis Vuitton's "Tribute to Monogram" project, he imagined an irregular soft handbag put aside and gave it a hard box material, which perfectly recorded this state with the concept of sculpture. The exquisite TwistedBox handbag has become the most challenging work in the whole "tribute to Monogram" series, which perfectly combines the iconic rigid lines and elegant curves of Louis Vuitton hard box, making people fondle it. Press the gold brass spring hook, and you will see the exquisite blue lambskin lining with Monogram pattern embossed by FrankGehry.

Jewelry works

Frank Gehry was born in Toronto, Canada. He is a famous architect. This is a series of jewels he designed for Tiffany. He used a series of different materials, such as black gold, Pernambuco wood, Keqiaolongshi and so on. Together with other materials such as pure silver, diamonds and precious stones, he created six themes in this series. Creativity comes from structural elements, childhood memories, Renaissance masters and contemporary painters.

Anecdotes of characters

Another "Frank"

Americans like to call Frank Gehry "another Frank" because there is a famous Frank Lloyd Wright in front. On the other hand, Gary doesn't like being often compared with Wright. He always emphasizes that he is not Wright's type, but he has become a household name. There is no better architect in this century except another Frank. Because he is a star, Gary also gave a lecture tour to promote his new book "Gary says architecture and process".

Warm wine

Frank Gehry's real fame still comes from Bilbao. After the completion of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the architectural art circles have different opinions on the museum he designed and built here as an alien visitor, and the pop culture circles also have different attitudes. Some TV celebrities have made it clear that they don't like it, some big-name singers are willing to dance on the grass in front of its courtyard, while tourists and architectural enthusiasts are completely fascinated by it. Anyway, after Bilbao, Gary was famous for his wild sculptural form in architecture, which captured the hearts of countless people in Washington, new york and Boston, and also captured the hearts of Spaniards. The mayor of Basque, Spain, enthusiastically attacked and asked him to set up a small winery, and also gave him a bottle of 1929 wine. Don't forget that he was born in 1929. So he accepted the job.

The Rock Museum in Seattle

When you become a star, you will always be played. The trick Gary played again was designed for the Rock Museum in Seattle. This museum was commissioned by paul allen, one of the founders of Micro. When asked by Newsweek reporter what kind of museum he would build, Gary said, "Allen people are very nice. I asked him what he wanted. He said that he wants a' handsome guy', which is very funny but very sweet. " Gary seemed confused, so he took Allen to his office and asked him to point out which model was handsome. As a result, he chose DG Bank in Berlin and a conference center nicknamed "Wharf", which is also one of Gary's masterpieces. Gary started designing.

biography

Original name: ConversationswithFrankGehry

Barbara Eisenberg

Translator: Su

Publishing House: CITIC Publishing House

Publication year: 20 13-4- 1

Page count: 340

Pricing: 98.00 yuan

brief Introduction of the content

He is a truck driver by day and studies architecture at night. Because of the formal sense of alphabetical arrangement, he changed his name to Gary;

He started his design career in the US Army Corps, and designed the slogan of military toilets as a decorative manuscript of the Catholic Church.

His work is described as "that stone!" ;

He designed a dog house, and the buyer complained that the progress was too slow;

His design scheme attracted President People's Republic of China (PRC) to participate in the discussion.

He was also ridiculed by the Simpsons as an architect looking for inspiration in the trash can.

He is Frank Gehry, the most innovative and influential architect of our time. He is the master of the most iconic architecture in the contemporary era, and enjoys many affirmations including the Pritzker Prize, the highest honor of architecture. He is defiant and outspoken, and his misunderstanding is almost as fierce as his admiration. Faced with the voices around him, he always sticks to himself. Museo guggenheim bilbao, Los Angeles Disney Concert Hall, Prague's "Dance House" and Tiffany's jewelry, he only responded to questions through constant creation, boldly explored, refused to copy and set limits on himself. His works, like the life stories he tells in the book, will never exceed your imagination.

This book is an interview biography of architect Frank Gehry. In the book, Gary frankly shared with readers his life experience of more than 80 years, his experiences as a teenager, the arduous road to becoming an architect, his thoughts on architecture and innovation, his life beliefs, the wonderful or sad stories behind each work, and the people and things that have a far-reaching influence on him. This is not only a book about architecture and architects, but also a life record of breaking through difficulties in accumulation and precipitation.

Brief introduction of the author

BarbaraIsenberg is good at writing articles about artists and works of art, and has also given some related lectures. As a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times, she has published articles in magazines such as Esquire, Time, Talk, Nation and Lady, and contributed to the Sunday Times in London. At the same time, she also won the "Outstanding Art Award" from the Los Angeles Music Center. Since 1980, she has visited Frank Gehry many times and described the architectural design track of Gary in newspapers, magazines and books.

catalogue

Recommendation order

order

Design dream house

Chapter 1 The Road to Learning

From Toronto to Los Angeles

Private Gary's Military Life

Go forward-become a Harvard person

Should artworks have toilets? -Gary's meeting with the artist

Chapter 2 The Road to Innovation Gary is famous overseas.

Temples along the Mississippi River: Inspiration, Art and Exhibition Space

Finally, become a local hero-the twists and turns and success of Disney Concert Hall.

Bilbao effect

Chapter III Steady Development

Job description

Join hands with genius to create * * * —— Stata Center of MIT

Jump to the big screen and Tiffany showroom

On both sides: Atlantic Tower and Grand Avenue.

Geriwu

Return home in splendor-retire after success

old age

Express gratitude/gratitude

media comments

If we cut open Frank Gehry's architectural works, we can clearly see that behind the passionate and energetic art form, there is a clue of modern functionalism with strict logic. The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is a vivid example. Behind the complex curved surface, there are many different scales, and the combination of rectangular frames realizes the basic demand of "white cube" spatial characteristics in traditional art galleries.

Personality and artistic form and the logic of modern functionalism, like Frank? Two DNA curves intertwined in Gary's architectural life clearly outline the trajectory of his architectural life. Architectural critics are often obsessed with Frank? Gary's bohemian sculpture form and his personal artist's personality and style are often ignored. As a faithful believer of modernism, Gary instinctively shows that he is also an architect of modern functionalism. This instinct, like DNA, is deeply rooted in his architectural life and comes from the era of his growth and education.

There is no doubt that Frank Gehry is not an artist, because so far, no artist has the opportunity and ability to master such a large-scale urban sculpture, but he is not a pure architect in the eyes of critics, because he has always subjectively thought that "architecture is just art", and it is difficult for us to define his architecture with today's architectural system, because he has no own theory, never writes books and rarely teaches. But in my opinion, Frank Gehry is the greatest architect of our time. He is an architect as an artist, because he left a talking building, an architectural myth full of emotion and artistic interest.

-Zhu Kun, a famous architect

Personality assessment

To some extent, this form that Gary is proficient in vividly destroys the overall popular form in his country. Although his works are very different from other works, they are more or less related in some categories. But compared with the traditional urban function, form, space and overall appearance, Gary's works have a considerable sense of superiority. He created a unique style and opened a new chapter in architectural form. Gary found the * * sound between architecture and art, which also shows that the public is eager to integrate art into architecture. These two items are also unpredictable and full of surprises. This kind of synthesis is mainly reflected in the obvious and vague, natural and artificial, new and old, dark and transparent, closed and empty, which is the most striking contrast between Gary and other architectural works, so Gary is known as "Picasso in architecture".