Area of interaction focus

Significant concept

Human Ingenuity: Why do humans create, develop or change products or solutions?

Innovation: Some people innovate and create products that change the traditional standards.

MYP unit questionIs Frank Gehry an innovative

architect? Why?

Unit: 3D-Design

Architecture as Art

VOCABULARY1. Architecture: the art and science of

designing and making buildings2. Architect: the person who designs

buildings3. Sculpture: a three-dimensional artwork4. Sculptural: an object that has the

qualities of a sculpture5. Grids = graph paper6. Shapes: two-dimensional space trapped

by a line7. Organic Form: a three-dimensional object

(based on nature)8. Wiggly: a back and forth kind of

movement9. Movement: the action of moving (either

actual or implied)10.Geometric plane: a geometric, flat two

dimensional surface

Frank Gehry :: ArchitectBIOGRAPHY:

-Born 1929 Toronto Canada-Moved to Los Angeles during his teenage years-Studied architecture in university-Owns architecture firm in Santa Monica California currently

“Don’t try to be someone else. Find your own voice, find your own way.”

ARTIST QUOTE“I realized you don’t need gr

ids if you can create spaces and forms and shapes. You can see that in Bilbao…how wiggly can you get and still make a building?”

Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao Spain 1991-1997

Draw the FLOWING ORGANIC FORMS.

Detail of the Guggenheim Museum.

Interior space of the Guggenheim museum.

ARTIST QUOTE“I’ve always been

fascinated with the idea of movement in architecture, and how it can induce an emotional response.”

Fascinated = very interestedInduce = to cause

Nationale-Nederlanden Building 1992-1996

What was your emotional response to this building? Did it make you feel…•Perplexed? (Confused)•Inspired? (Motivated)•Astonished? (Amazed)•Ambivalent? (Unsure)“After seeing the Nederlanden Building I felt…because…”

Draw the horizontal lines that create MOVEMENT.

Describe these lines. What adjectives will you choose?

Draw the vertical lines that create MOVEMENT.

Nationale-Nederlanden Building

ARTIST QUOTE“I approach each

building as a sculptural object, a container, a space filled with light and air.”

Nationale-Nederlanden Building

Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis Minnesota

Draw the lines that make SHARP ANGLES.

Weisman Art Museum

Draw the GEOMETRIC PLANES.

Weisman Art Museum

Architecture as Art