Frank Gehry is a Canadian-American architect known for his deconstructivist style. Some of his most famous works include the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, which is celebrated for revitalizing the city through its distinctive titanium-clad forms inspired by fish. Gehry's own residence in Santa Monica, built in 1978, pioneered his fragmented, sculptural approach using materials like corrugated metal. It demonstrates his process of modifying an existing structure with irregular, overlapping elements. The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao features a similar complex geometric design using stone, glass, and 33,000 unique titanium panels to form interconnected volumes resembling a flower or boat. Both works exemplify Geh

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FRANK O. GEHRY

2. INTRODUCTION
• He is Canadian-born American architect and designer,
residing in Los Angeles.
• Born in February 28, 1929 (age 92)
• Gehry graduated at the top of his class with a bachelor of
architecture degree from the university of southern
California's school of architecture in 1954.
• He designed number of his buildings, including his private
residence, have become world-renowned attractions.
• His works are cited as being among the most important
works of contemporary architecture in the 2010 World
Architecture Survey,

3. ARCHITECTURAL STYLE
• His works fall under Deconstructivism architectural style.
• Although Frank Gehry does not personally associate with the
movement, critics primarily consider his design philosophy to be
deconstructivism.
• Deconstructivism is an approach characterized by fragmentation
and distortions of traditional structure, informed by his belief that
all artists should be true to themselves.
• His earliest educational influence was rooted in modernism but
his works have some element of deconstructivism.
• Gehry has been called "the apostle of chain-link fencing and
corrugated metal siding".

4. It is an architectural movement or style influenced by deconstruction that
encourages radical freedom of form and the open manifestation of complexity in a
building rather than strict attention to functional concerns and conventional design
elements (as right angles or grids).
DECONSTRUCTIVISM
“Disassembly of the building components and reassembly in a
new way is inherent in the style”

5. DESIGN FEATURES
• Gehry's deconstructivist architecture is like jazz music.
• He creates a language of architecture by improvising and making ''something'' distinctive with the
components of architecture.
• Gehry intends to create disharmony and visual disorientation.
• His forms are a fusion of sculpture.
• Gehry uses skewed geometry and creates heterogeneous, non-rectilinear, and curvilinear forms that are
distorted, dislocated, and continuously deformed.
• Form doesn't follow function in Gehry's hands, too. Gehry's forms break with the assumptions of their
functions.
• Irregular geometry is a means of formal aesthetic in Gehry's buildings.
• Structure is essential for Gehry's architecture where form and structure become one.
• Gehry strips the walls, breaks down the parts of the structure, and exposes them.
• Then, he puts together those fragmented pieces in a new order that appears disorganized and chaotic.
• The controlled chaos is his way of deconstructing harmony in architecture.

6. HOLLYWOOOD BOWL,
AMPHITHEATRE,LOS ANGLES
WEISMAN ART MEUSEUM
MINNEAPOLIS,USA
GEHRY RESIDENCE,
CALIFORNIA,USA
VITRA DESIGN MEUSEUM,
GERMANY
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DANCING HOUSE,
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GUGGENHEIM MEUSEUM,
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WALT DISNEY CONCRETE HALL ,
LA,USA
GEHRY TOWER,
SPORT DEPARTMENT
BUILDING,HANOVER,GERMANY
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10. THEGEHRY
HOUSE
• Location: Santa Monica,California
• Date:1978
• Construction System: lightwood frame, corrugated metal, chain link

11. INTRODUCTION
▪ Frank and Berta Gehry bought a pink bungalow
that was originally built in 1920.
▪ The original structure is the conventional two-
storey bungalow with framing.
▪ Some interior finishes have been stripped to
reveal the support of the structure inside the
residence.
▪ The bearing wall is raised inner and outer
structural frames wooden support beams, girders
and joists.

12. ❑ Frank Gehry said "... I loved the idea of leaving the house intact ... I came up with the idea of building
a new home about. We were told there were ghosts in the house ... I decided they were ghosts of
cubism. Windows ... I wanted to make them look like they're dragging. At night, since the glass is
tilted reflect light ... So when you are sitting at this table all these cars are passing by, you see the
moon in the wrong place ... the moon is there but it reflects here ... and you think it's there and do not
know where the hell are you ... “
The architect explains: "... Armed with very little money I decided
to build a new house around the old and try to maintain a tension
between the two, making one define the other, and making them
feel that the old house was intact within the new, from the outside
and from the inside. These were the basic objectives ... "
CONCEPT

13. ❑ It makes use of unconventional materials such as fences with trellis, glass inner wire and corrugated
metal sheets, wood framing, corrugated steel, plywood and light wood frames.
MATERIALS

14. FLOOR PLAN
GROUND FLOOR PLAN FIRST FLOOR PLAN

15. THE BUNGLOW
STAGES OF MODIFICATION IN HOUSE

16. WOODEN PLANK WALL WERE BUILD IN THE
BACKYARD
LAYER OF WOODEN

17. CORRUGATED METAL WALL WERE USED
TO BUILD NEW SPACES AS KITCHEN AND
DINNING
LAYER OF CORRUGATED METAL

18. WOODEN PLANK WALL WERE BUILD IN THE
BACKYARD
LAYER OF WOODEN

19. LAYER OF FLOOR
NEW ROOF ADDED TO CREATE NEW SPACES IN
OLD PLANNING

20. HOUSE SPACES
BACKYARD AND SWIMMING POOL

21. RELATION BETWEEN INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR
LIVING ROOM KITCHEN

22. RELATIONSHIP OF THE NEW AND THE OLD HOUSE

23. • In 1992, Gehry remodeled his residence
according to his increasing needs.
• His family needed more rooms and better privacy
as his children grew up.
• So, he turned the garage into a guest room and a
gaming room.
• He also added a swimming pool.
• Furthermore, Gehry renewed the wooden
structure covering the whole house that was
missing some details from the first construction.
• this project a kick-start in Gehry’s career.
• And also a symbol of his contribution to the
history of architectural design.
• In 2012, Frank Gehry was awarded by The
American Institute of Architects for the
completion of twenty-five years of the residence.

24. • Location:Bilbao, Spain
• Date:1997
• Construction System:Steel Frame, Titanium Sheathing
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
BILBAO – SPAIN

25. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, BILBAO, SPAIN
▪ This museum has played a key role in the urban revitalization and transformation of the area.
▪ In addition has become the symbol of the city of Bilbao, Spain.
▪ It is situated on a plot of 32,500 square meters, of which 24,000 square meters are occupied
by building. 9,066 square meters are devoted to exhibition spaces.

26. CONCEPT
• The design of the building follows the style of Frank Gehry.
• Inspired by the shapes and textures of a fish, it can be considered a
sculpture, a work of art in itself.
• The museum is essentially a shell that evokes the past industrial life
and port of Bilbao.
• It consists of a series of interconnected volumes, some formed of
orthogonal coated stone and others from a titanium skeleton covered by
an organic skin.

27. CONCEPTUAL SKETCHES

28. • The connection between volumes is created by the glass skin.
• The museum is integrated into the city both by it height and the materials used.
• Seen from the river, the form resembles a boat, but seen from above it resembles a flower.

29. STRUCTURE
▪ The building is built with load- bearing walls and ceilings, which have an internal structure of
metal rods that form grids with triangles.
▪ The shapes of the museum could not have succeeded if it did not use load-bearing walls and
ceilings.
▪ Catia(three dimensional design software) determined the number of bars required in each location,
as well as the bars positions and orientations.
▪ In addition to this structure, the walls and ceilings have several insulating layers and an outer
coating of titanium.
▪ Each piece is unique and exclusive to the place, determined by Catia.

30. MATERIALS
▪ Built of limestone, glassand titanium, the museum used 33,000 pieces of titanium half a millimeter
thick, each with a unique form suited to its location.
▪ As these pieces are so thin, a perfect fit to the curves is necessary.
▪ The glass has a special treatment to let in the sun's light, but not its heat.

31. ATRIUM SURROUNDED BY
EXHIBITION GALLERIES
• The Atrium Is The Real Heart Of The Museum
And One Of The Most Idiosyncratic Features
Of Gehry´s Design.
• The Atrium´s Remarkable Height (55 M) Is One
And Half Times That Of Frank Lloyd Wright´s
Guggenheim Museum In Ny.
• Exhibition Space Is Distributed In 19 Galleries.
• Ten Having Regular Shape With Stone Finish , Nine Other
Have Irregular Shape And Have Titanium Finish.
GALLERIES
ATRIUM

32. PARTITIONCUMDISPLAYWALLSINMUSUEM
RECTANGULARLOFTSUNDERSKYLIGHT

33. ATRIUM
ART GALLERIES
EXHIBITION HALL
ELEMENTS USED FOR
DAY LIGHT

34. THESERVICEAREAS

35. WATER BODIES

36. CRITICISM
As every building faces criticism so as Guggenheim Museum did.
Art critic Brian O‘ Doherty criticized the museum's interior
effect, saying "Once you get indoors things are a little different.
Even the so-called site-specific works didn't look too happy to
me. Most of the interior spaces are too vast." He went on to
describe how works by Braque, Picasso and Rodchenko “ looked
absurd" and tiny on the museum's walls.

37. REFERENCE
 Guggenheim Bilbao Museum. Come in and plan your visit (guggenheim-bilbao.eus)
 Frank Gehry | Biography, Architecture, Buildings, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Pritzker
Pavilion, Style, & Facts | BritannicaFrank Gehry House in Santa Monica (First Residence) |
ArchEyes
 Gehry Residence / Gehry Partners | ArchDaily
 Frank Gehry By Caroline Evensen Lazo
 The Building | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (guggenheim-bilbao.eus)

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