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• Frank Owen Gehry, (born onFebruary 28, 1929) isa Canadian American

Pritzker Prize-winning Architect based in Los Angeles,California.

• His buildings, including his private residence, havebecome tourist attractions.

• His works are often cited as being among the mostimportant works of contemporary

architecture in the 2010 World Architecture Survey,which led Vanity Fair to label him as"the most important architect of our age".



Gehry's best-known works include:

• The titanium-coverered Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao,Spain.

• MITS tata Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.• Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles.• Experience Music Project in Seattle.• Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis.• Dancing House in Prague; the Vitra Design Museum

and Mart a Museum in Germany.• The Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto;.• The Cinémathèque française in Paris.• And 8 Spruce Street in New York City.But it was his private residence in Santa Monica,California, which jump-started his career,lifting it from the status of "paper architecture" – aphenomenon that many famousarchitects have experienced in their formative decadesthrough experimentation almostexclusively on paper before receiving their first majorcommission in later years.

• Gehry is also the designer of the future Dwight D.Eisenhower Memorial.



• The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art,designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, built byFerrovial, and located iBilbao, Basque Country, Spain.

• It is built alongside the Nervion River, which runs through the city of Bilbao to theAtlantic Coast.• The Guggenheim is one of several museums belonging to the Solomon R. GuggenFoundation.• The museum features permanent and visiting exhibits of works by Spanish andinternational artists.

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM:



WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL:

• The Walt Disney Concert Hall at 111 South Grand Avenue in Downtown Los AngelCalifornia is the fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center.• Bounded by Hope Street, Grand Avenue, 1st and 2nd Streets, it seats 2,265 peopl

serves (among other purposes) as the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestrand the Los Angeles Master Chorale.• Lillian Disney made an initial gift in 1987 to build a performance venue as a gift to thpeople of Los Angeles and a tribute to Walt Disney's devotion to the arts and to the cit

• The Frank Gehry-designed building opened on October 24, 2003.• Both the architecture by Frank Gehry and the acoustics of the concert hall (designe

Yasuhisa Toyota) were praised in contrast to its predecessor, the Dorothy Chandler Pa



Walt Disney concert Hall.

The exterior of Founders room after panels were re-surfaced.

Walt Disney sign.



EXPERIENCE MUSIC PROJECT AND SCIENCE FICTION MUSEUM AND HALL OF F

• The EMP Museum(formerly known as Experience Music Project and Science FiMuseum and Hall of Fame orEMP|SFM) is a museum dedicated to the history and

exploration of both popular music and science fiction located in Seattle, Washington.

• The Frank Gehry-designed museum building is located on the campus of theSeattle Center, adjacent to the Space Needle and the Seattle Center Monorail, which rthrough the building.

Design by Frank Gehry.

View of the EMP Museum from the Seattle Center with the monorailtraveling through it

Monorail tracks goingthrough the EMP/SFMbuilding

An exterior view of the building



DANCING HOUSE IN PRAGUE:

• The Dancing House is the nickname given to the Nationale-Nederlanden building indowntown Prague, Czech Republic at Rašínovo nábřeží 80, 120 00 Praha 2. It was desiby Croatian-Czech architect Vlado Milunić in co-operation with Canadian-American

architect Frank Gehry on a vacant riverfront plot.• The building was designed in 1992 and completedin 1996.• Originally named Fred and Ginger , the houseresembles a pair of dancers) the house stands outamong the Baroque, Gothic and Art Nouveau buildings

for which Prague is famous.

Windows of the dancing house



8 SPRUCE STREET:

• 8 Spruce Street, originally known as Beekman Tower and currently marketed asNew York by Gehry, is a 76-story skyscraper designed by architect Frank Gehry in thNew York City borough of Manhattan at 8 Spruce Street, just south of City Hall Plaza a

Brooklyn Bridge.

• 8 Spruce Street is one of thetallest residential buildings in theWestern Hemisphere, andsomewhat resembles Aqua, a

Chicago skyscraper, in height andform.• The building was developed byForest City Ratner, designed byFrank Gehry, and constructed by

Kreisler Borg Florman.

• It contains a public elementaryschool, which the Department ofEducation owns.• It opened in February 2011.• Its structural frame is made of• reinforced concrete



GEHRY’S RESIDENCE:

• When Frank Gehry and his wife bought an existing house in Santa Monica, Californithe neighbors did not have the slightest idea that the corner residence would soon Betransformed into a symbol of deconstructivism.

• Gehry, however, knew something had to be done to the house before he moved in.• His solution was a bold one in the 1970′s that involved the “balance of fragment and

whole, raw and refined, new and old” and wouldstrike up controversy.



• Gehry actually did keep the existing house almostcompletely in tact, but not in a conventional manner.• The Dutch colonnial home was left in tact and the

new

house was built around it.• Holes were made, walls were stripped, torn down

andput up, and the old quiet house became a loud shriekofcontemporary style among the neighboring mansions –

literally.• Neighbors hated it, but that did not change the fact

thatthe house was a statement of art entwined witharchitecture.



• Gehry’s design wrapped around three sides of the old house on the groundfloor, extending the house towards the street and leaving the exterior of theexisting home almost untouched.

• The interior went through a considerable amount of changes on both if its

two levels.• In some places it was stripped to reveal the framing, exposing the joists and

wood studs.• It was repaired according to the addition, showing both old and new

elements.• This is especially evident when walking through the rooms of the house and

passing by both new doors placed by Gehry and older ones originally in thehouse.

• The entrance is barely discernible amidst the jutting angles of the exterior,which Gehry created from wood, glass, aluminum, and chain-link fencing.

• The apex of the old house peeks out from within this mix of materials, givingthe impression that the house is consistently under construction.

• In 1991 due to the Gehry family’s growth which involved two boys, thehouse had to be expanded.

• Even though Gehry tried to maintain the same style of the house, allowingthe original design to determine that of the addition, the house went throughsignificant changes.

• The residence became much more “finished” which in turn stirred up the

angry voices of those who felt strongly about the original raw





FIRST FLOOR PLAN

SECOND FLOOR PLAN



AXONOMETRIC VIEW



“I loved the idea of leaving the house intact… I came up with the idea of building the ne

house around it. We were told there were ghosts in the house… I decided they were ghCubism. The windows… I wanted to make them look like they were crawling out of this

At night, because this glass is tipped it mirrors the light in… So when you’re sitting at thi

table you see all these cars going by, you see the moon in the wrong place… the moon

over there but it reflects here… and you think it’s up there and you don’t know where th

hell you are…” – Frank Gehry



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