A ppt about Frank Gehry and the Gold Fish.

1. ARCHITECTURE IN BARCELONA IES BARCELONA CONGRES Pablo Ortiz Figueroa

2. MY BUILDING IS THE GOLD FISH

3. BASIC INFORMATION Kind of building: sculpture Place: Olympic Port is nexto to hotel Arts and Torre Mapfre Designer: Frank Gehry Year: 1992 Material: copper

4. FRANK GEHRY Year: 1929 Place: Toronto – Canada 1954: Harvard University -> Urbanism 1961: travell to France -> study French architecure (like: Le Corbusier and others, and romanic churches).

5. MORE ABOUT FRANK GEHRY He thinks that architecture is an art . He works with volumes and materials on the facade . When he returned from France to Los Angeles, he worked alone , creating his style of architecture, getting recognition national and internationally.

6. FRANK GEHRY AND THE GOLD FISH History: Before, he studied the liberty of the fish body . In 1980 he did similar objects like Gold Fish. When Barcelona people charge to him an sulpture for the Olympics, he proposed a big structre of metal that with it reflections marks the begining of Olympic Port.

8. MORE BUILDINGS OF FRANK GEHRY Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain.

10. MORE BUILDINGS OF FRANK GEHRY Dancing House, Praga, Czech Republic.

11. MORE BUILDINGS OF FRANK GEHRY Museum of art Weisman, Mediapolis, U.S.A.