3. BASIC INFORMATION
It is being built now, in Barcelona.
It will be offices and a hotel; designed by
Frank Gerhy.
And its cost is 250.000.000 euros.
4. FRANK GERHY
He was born in 1929, in Toronto - Canada.
He graduated in architecture in 1954 at Harvard
University studied urbanism.
In 1961 he traveled to France with his family (wife
and two daughters) to study French architecture,
like Le Corbusier and others, and Romanic
churches. He thinks that architecture is an art. Is
difficult for unexperienced people to understand his
buildings because he works with volumes and
materials on the facade.
5. His family is Jewish-Polish. In 1954 he changed his
name because his ex-wife presured him. During
a year he didn't study architecture at the
university because he had to do the military
service. When he returned from France to Los
Angeles, he worked alone, creating his style of
architecture, getting recognition national and
internationaly. He likes hockey, and in 2004 he
designed the Cup of the World Hockey liga.
6. Prizes of Frank Gerhy
* 1977 - Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture (American
Academy of Arts and Letters.)
* 1989 - Pritzker Prize.
* 1992 - Wolf Foundation Prize in the Arts (Architecture).
* 1992 - Praemium Imperiale Award for Architecture, the "Japan
Art Association.
* 1994 - Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize.
* 1998 - National Medal of Arts (AEB).
* 1998 - Friedrich Kiesler Prize.
* 1999 - Gold Medal of the AIA, American Institute of Architects
(AEB).
* 2000 - Gold Medal, Royal Institute of British Architects.
* 2002 - Gold Medal for Architecture (American Academy of Arts
and Letters).
* 2002 - Companion of the Order of Canada.
* 2003 - Silver Medal Caldes de Malavella
* 2007 - Cross of the Order of the Principality of Andorra
Charlemagne (later rejected)
7. Prizes of Frank Gerhy
* 1977 - Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture (American
Academy of Arts and Letters.)
* 1989 - Pritzker Prize.
* 1992 - Wolf Foundation Prize in the Arts (Architecture).
* 1992 - Praemium Imperiale Award for Architecture, the "Japan
Art Association.
* 1994 - Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize.
* 1998 - National Medal of Arts (AEB).
* 1998 - Friedrich Kiesler Prize.
* 1999 - Gold Medal of the AIA, American Institute of Architects
(AEB).
* 2000 - Gold Medal, Royal Institute of British Architects.
* 2002 - Gold Medal for Architecture (American Academy of Arts
and Letters).
* 2002 - Companion of the Order of Canada.
* 2003 - Silver Medal Caldes de Malavella
* 2007 - Cross of the Order of the Principality of Andorra
Charlemagne (later rejected)
