Frank Owen Gehry

BIOGRAPHY

FRANK GEHRY WAS born in Toronto, Canada, in 1929At the age of 17, he moved with his family to Los Angeles, California and studied architecture at the University of Southern California.Later, he studied city Planning at Harvard University. He established his own firm in 1962 in Los Angeles.

MAGGIE’S CENTRE, DUNDEE, SCOTLAND

VITRA DESIGN MUSEUM, WEIL EM RHEIM, GERMANY

BIOGRAPHY

Since that time, he has designed public and private buildings in America, Japan and Europe.Gehry’s work has earned him several of the most significant awards in the architectural field. Including the Pritzker Architectural Prize.

The dancing house, Prague, Czech republic

Gehry tower, Hanover, Germany

DESIGN STYLE

"Every building is by its very nature a sculpture. You can't help it. Sculpture is a three-dimensional object and so is a building.“

Frank O. Gehry

“I approach each building as a sculptural object, a spatial container, a space with light and air, a response to context and appropriateness of feeling and spirit. To this container, this sculpture, the user begins his baggage, his program, and interacts with it to accommodate his needs. If he can’t do that, I’ve failed.”

Frank O. Gehry

In spite of changes in Gehry’s design over the years, his approach to a building as a sculpture retains.

DESIGN STYLE

Gehry’s architecture has undergone a marked evolution from the plywood and corrugated-metal vernacular of his early works to the distorted but pristine concrete of his later works. However, the works retain a deconstructed aesthetic that fits well with the increasingly disjointed culture to which they belong. Most recently, Gehry has combined sensuous curving forms with complex deconstructive massing, achieving significant new results.

WORKS

THE GEHRY HOUSE

The Gehry House

Location: Santa Monica, California  Date:1978  Construction System: light wood frame, corrugated metal, chain link

Photo coutesy: Thomas mayer

By wrapping the perimeter of the lot with construction materials and

leaving the original house as it was, Gehry created a new space between

the lots lines and the old house.

THE ORIGINAL BUNGLOWTHE NEWBUNGLOW

THE ORIGINAL HOUSE WAS A SMALL, TWO STORY COTTAGE COVERED BY

SHINGLE.

THE CONCRETE LAYER

Low aqua concrete walls were used to mark the boundary

THE CORRUGATED METAL LAYER

CORRUGATED METAL WAS USED

CORRUGATED METAL walls were used TO build NEW SPACES AS

KITCHEN AND DINING

THE WOODEN LAYER

Wooden plank walls were build in the back yard

LAYER OF FLOOR

A new roof was added to the additional spaces created

LAYER OF CHAIN LINK FENCING

Chain link fencing was used Chain link fencing was used to

enclose the floor added.

LAYER OF GLASS

Glass cubes were placed over the kitchen and dining to

throw in light

THE EXTERIOR LOOK

RELATIONSHIP OF THE NEW AND THE OLD HOUSE

THE RELATION IN THE INTERIORS

ENTRANCEPLANS

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

kITCHENLiving roomBackyard and swimming pool

Guggenheim museum bilbao

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM

Location: BILBAO, SPAIN  Date:1997  Construction System: STEEL FRAME, TITANIUM SHEATHING

LOCATION

Puente De La Salve

Campo Volantin

Footbridge

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The river walk

HIGHLIGHTER FOR BILBAO

THE CONCEPT

view from Puente De La Salve

View from Campo Volantin Footbridge

CALM AND UNINTERACTIVE

ENTRANCE TO THE BUILDING

THE ATRIUM

SKYLIGHT OVER THE ATRIUM

OTHER SOURCES OF LIGHT IN THE ATRIUM

Atrium surrounded by exhibition galleries

SUSPENDED WALKWAYS CONNECTING GALLERIES

THE terrace

GALLERIES

Ground floor plan

Third floor plan

LIGHTING IN GALLERIES

PARTITIONS IN GALLERIES

RECTANGULAR LOFTS UNDER SKYLIGHTS

RECTANGULAR LOFTS UNDER

SKYLIGHTS

The service areas

OFFICES

PARKING

Views of the service areas

landscapingSHADES AND TREESLANDSCAPE FURNITURE

Water bodies

Water bodies

Water bodies

Water bodies