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2. ABOUT GEHRY
 Born: February 28, 1929 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 Birth Name: Frank Owen Goldberg.
 Left Canada: Moved with his Polish/Russian parents to
southern California in 1947. Choose U.S. citizenship when he
turned 21.
 Education:
 Los Angeles City College
 University of Southern California. Architecture degree
completed in 1954
 Harvard Graduate School of Design. Studied city planning
for one year.
 Personal Life: From 1952 to 1966, married to Anita Snyder,
with whom he has two daughters. Frank Goldberg's name
change to Frank Gehry is generally attributed to his first
wife's encouragement. Gehry divorced Snyder and married
Berta Isabel Aguilera in 1975. They have two sons.

3. GEHRY’S STYLE
Gehry’s signature style couples his interest in materiality
with expressive form. These buildings are usually composed
of discrete volumes, sheped with freely flowing curvilinear
roofs. Metal panels are often used as cladding, either
stainless or titanium.

4. CAREER OF FRANK GEHRY
 Buildings: Frank Gehry established his Los Angeles practice
in 1962. Early in his career, he designed houses inspired by
modern architects such as Richard Neutra and Frank Lloyd
Wright. Gehry's admiration of Louis Kahn's work influenced
his 1965 box-like design of the Danziger House, a
studio/residence for designer Lou Danziger. With this work,
Gehry began to be noticed as an architect. As his career
expanded, Gehry became known for massive, iconoclastic
projects that attracted attention and controversy.

5.  Furniture: Gehry had success in the 1970s with his line
of Easy Edges chairs made from bent laminated
cardboard. By 1991, Gehry was using bent laminated
maple to produce the Power Play Armchair. These designs
are part of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
collection in NYC.

6.  Memorials: The Eisenhower Memorial Commission choose
Frank Gehry's design for the Washington, D.C. memorial
honoring Dwight D. Eisenhower's command of the Allied
Forces in Europe in World War II and as the 34th
President of the United States.

7.  Gehry Designs: Because architecture takes so long to become
realized, Gehry often turns to the "quick fix" of designing smaller
products, including jewelry, trophies, and even liquor bottles. From
2003 to 2006 Gehry's partnership with Tiffany & Co. released the
exclusive jewelry collection that included the sterling silver Torque
Ring. In 2004 the Canada-born Gehry designed a trophy for the
international World Cup of Ice Hockey tournament. Also in 2004,
the Polish side of Gehry designed a twisty vodka bottle for
Wyborowa Exquisite.
TORQUE RING
Ice hockey tournament trophy
vodka bottle

8. Awards
 1977: Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture,
American Academy of Arts and Letters
 1989: Pritzker Architecture Prize
 1992: Wolf Prize in Art, the Wolf Foundation
 1992: Praemium Imperiale Award, Japan Art Association
 1994: Dorothy and Lillian Gish Award for lifetime contribution
to the arts
 1998: National Medal of Arts
 1998: Friedrich Kiesler Prize
 1999: Lotos Medal of Merit, Lotos Club
 1999: Gold Medal, American Institute of Architects
 2000: Lifetime Achievement Award, Americans for the Arts
 More than 100 awards from the American Institute of
Architects
 Numerous honorary doctorates and honorary titles

9. Merriweather Post Pavilion,
Columbia, Maryland
 Merriweather Post Pavilion is an outdoor concert venue nestled
within the 40 preserved acres known as Symphony Woods,
conveniently located in the Baltimore/Washington corridor in
Columbia, Maryland. Originally built to be the home of the National
Symphony Orchestra, Merriweather was designed by the renowned
architect Frank Gehry. The natural outdoor setting, the state-of-
the-art sound system and large video screens make this
amphitheatre a favorite for bands and fans.

10. Gehry House (Gehry's private home)
Concept: 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 ... “

11.  Materials: 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.

12. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis
It is one of the major landmarks on campus, situated on a bluff overlooking
the Mississippi River at the east end of theWashington Avenue Bridge. The
building presents two faces, depending on which side it is viewed from. From
the campus side, it presents a brick facade that blends with the existing brick
and sandstone buildings. On the opposite side, the museum is a playground of
curving and angular brushed steel sheets. This side is an abstraction of a
waterfall and a fish.

14. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
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. 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.

15. 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.

16.  Materials: Built of limestone, glass and 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.

17. Maggies Centre, Dundee, Scotland
Structure: Stability for the remainder of the single-storey structure was
achieved by tying the square hollow sections to the walls. These are all curved
on plan, and are constructed in brickwork. This was for two reasons: firstly,
some of the walls are to small radii which was not easily achievable in
blockwork, and secondly there was a need to minimize control joints. To
maintain uniformity of beam sizes, raking kickers were provided to minimize
overhang deflections.
The tower was designed as a separate structure, inherently stable in its own
right.

18. Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
CA
Concept:The design represents the style of their creator, architect Frank
Gehry, could be considered a work of art in itself. The extravagance of its forms
seems to defy any rules of harmony and symmetry. The forms are external
inspired by a boat with sails drenched.
The building is essentially a shell which consists of a series of interconnected
volumes, some form of orthogonal coated stone and other forms of organic and
surfaces covered with a corrugated metal skin of steel. As a bridge between the
different volumes are used glazed surfaces.
The centerpiece of the interior of the building was designed to represent the
hull of a boat. The idea of the architect was to design a room with an evocative
sculptural forms of music, achieving an intimate connection between the
orchestra and audience.

19.  Structure:To calculate the complex shapes of the curves Walt Disney
Concert Hall was used to Catia software. This allowed us to determine the
structure and shape of each piece of steel that covers them.
 Materials:To coat the outer surfaces were used corrugated 12,500 pieces
of steel together on the outside. No two equal parts, as each piece takes a
unique form of agreement to their location.
In areas outside of regular forms, the stone was used. Glass surfaces function
as a liaison between the various volumes.
The interior of the auditorium and rooms, is lined with fir wood. This is the same
type of wood that is used in the back of violoncelos and violas. Here was
used in floors, walls and ceilings.

21. The Experience music project
,seattle washington
 CONCEPT : The project idea was inspired by the Fender
Stratocaster guitar that Hendrix used to destroy after each
concert. Hence, the museum takes the form of electric guitar
deconstructed that invites people to get into his spine to discover
how the music was born. This results in a fragmented and volumetry
undulating, as the body of an amoeba. From the top as the complex is
a conglomeration of various pieces of brightly colored plants. One of
the volumes is crossed by the Seattle monorail, which travels
through the interior of the museum.

22. Materials
Stainless steel, aluminum and glass. The restaurant industry is completely
covered in wood.
Structure
The roof is made up of 21 thousand panels of stainless steel with shades
of purple, silver and gold, aluminum and painted red and blue. Each panel
has a unique shape and size and is cut and warped to fit your specific
location. For this, we used a laser guided by a French 3D, Catia, developed
for aerospace engineering.

23. Fisher center for performing
arts,Bard college,Annandale-on-
Hudson,NY
The unusual shape of the Fisher Center grew out of the design for the two
interior theaters. Undulating stainless steel canopies project over the box
office and lobby. The canopies loosely drape over the sides of the theaters,
creating two tall, sky-lit gathering areas on each side of the main lobby. The
canopies also create a sculptural, collar-like shape that rests on the
concrete and plaster walls of the two theaters.

24. MATERIAL : Frank Gehry chose brushed stainless steel for the exterior
of the Fisher Center so that the sculptural building would reflect light and
color from the pastural landscape.

25. Chiat/Day complex – Venice,
California
The 1991 Venice, California, complex that Gehry built for advertising agency
Chiat/Day commonly goes by the nickname Binoculars Building, thanks to the
enormous pair of binoculars that mark the entrance to a parking garage—a
collaboration between Gehry and artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van
Bruggen. Office structures resembling a ship’s prow and tree trunks flank the
sculpture, which now welcomes 500 Google employees to work every day.

26. MIT Stanta Complex,
Cambridge MA

27. Jay Pritzke Music
Pavillion,Chicago,Illinoise
CONCEPT: The first design presented by Gehry had a much more austere ,
closer and inspired by the work of Mies van der Rohe and his influential
works in the city as the Crown Hall or Lake Shore Drive apartments scenario
. It seems that this time the Canadian architect wanted to break with his
particular style in favor of a more rational , simple, minimalist and
straightforward, but the client rejected the initial design indicating that
Gehry had hired precisely because of its distinctive style and proven
capacity to create architectural icons wherever he goes .
The second proposal was inspired in large part on an earlier draft of Gehry
made to reform the Hollywood Bown in Los Angeles, this project could not be
performed as the initial design because the client at that time was much
more conservative and ultimately chose just restore and update the existing
structure instead of making a new one.

28. STRUCTURE N MATERIAL : As with most works of Gehry steel is
undoubtedly the predominant material.
The stage structure is formed based soldiers steel profiles to achieve
each generate enough media for later stainless steel plates cover them
giving the project its final finish.
Moreover, the mesh covering the grassy esplanade is formed based
stainless steel curved circular section that intersect creating a kind of
giant network supported on a series of circular pillars placed at
intervals on the long sides of the square tubes .

29. MARTa Museum ,Herford,
Germany
In the Words of Architect Gehry:
"The way we work is we make models of the context that the buildings are going to be in. We pretty
thoroughly document it because that gives me visual clues. For instance, in Herford I wandered around
the streets, and I found that all the public buildings were brick and all the private buildings were
plaster. Since this is a public building, I decided to make it brick, because that's the language of the
town....I really spend time doing that, and if you go to Bilbao, you'll see that even though the building
looks pretty exuberant, it is very carefully scaled to what's around it....I'm really proud of this one."

31. IAC Building , Newyork city
CONCEPT: The 10-story building is divided horizontally into two main levels
of five floors each, with a narrowing on the sixth floor. It is divided into
five vertical sections at lower levels and three on top, further enhancing
the appearance of the sails of a ship. The sections appear twisted and
joined together like the cells of a beehive. The skin of the cell units looks
like candles on the skeleton of the building. Because of its shape,
composition and color is also conceptually related to an iceberg.

32. Materials
The innovative building erected in this area of New York, used in
construction reinforced concrete, steel and glass facade containing specially
coated with ceramic particles embedded increasing energy efficiency.

33. Beekman Tower – 8 Spruce
Street, New York City
Ripples run across the exterior of Manhattan’s Beekman Tower—dubbed 8
Spruce Street—as if a giant Super Ball had ricocheted through its interior.
These pleats also function as bay windows for residents of the 76-story
apartment building, which opened in 2011 and was commissioned by the
development firm Forest City Ratner Co.

34. Biomuseo ,Museum of
biodiversity,Panama

36. Olympic Fish Pavilion –
Barcelona
The monumental golden steel-mesh fish sculpture Gehry created for the 1992
Olympic Village in Barcelona represented a technological breakthrough for the
architect’s studio, which used three-dimensional aeronautical-design software
to realize the concept.

38. Dancing House – Prague
The Prague offices of the Dutch insurance company Nationale-Nederlanden
is also known as Fred and Ginger, thanks to its signature pair of towers,
which seem to resemble a couple dancing. The 1996 building, comprising a
cinched volume of metal mesh and glass and a concrete cylinder, was a
collaboration between Gehry and local architect Vlado Miluníc.

40. Neuer Zollhof – Dusseldorf,
Germany
Gehry’s Neuer Zollhof complex spurred the transformation of Dusseldorf,
Germany’s waterfront into what is now called the Media Harbour in 1999. The
popularity of the trio of office buildings yielded nearby commissions for
other prominent architects like Fumihiko Maki and Murphy/Jahn, and earned
the three towers a spot in the Germand edition of Monopoly.

41. DZ Bank building – Berlin
In Berlin, local code prohibits any building from outshining Brandenburg Gate.
Commissioned by Frankfurt-based DZ Bank & Hines to design a branch across
from the triumphal arch, Gehry created a sober limestone façade in response.
A spectacular stainless-steel conference room—whose shape Gehry has
likened to a horse’s head—is tucked within the atrium of the now-14-year-old
office building.

43. Peter B. Lewis Building –
Cleveland
Since its construction in 2002, the Peter B. Lewis Building has housed the
Weatherhead School of Management at Cleveland’s Case Western Reserve
University. The building exterior is classic Gehry, with ribbons of stainless
steel unfurling from a brick base. The open interior is meant to encourage
cross-disciplinary socializing.

45. Art Gallery of Ontario
renovation – Toronto
Born in Toronto in 1929, Gehry celebrated his first Canadian project there, a
renovation of the Art Gallery of Ontario, just a few months shy of turning 80.
The 1918 museum had already undergone expansion three times prior to the
Gehry commission. In response, the architect reorganized the jumbled plan and
inserted a variety of energetic and subdued volumes for additional exhibition
space.

46. Lou Ruvo Center – Las Vegas
The Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health was conceived by Las Vegas
entrepreneur Larry Ruvo, whose father died of complications related to
Alzheimer’s disease. In 2009 the Cleveland Clinic agreed to run the
multifaceted medical center and research facility, which features a steel-
clad event space anchored to a clinic and office building via a latticework
courtyard.

48. New World Center – Miami
Gehry composed the New World Center in Miami Beach as an uncharacteristic
boxlike volume. A six-story glass curtain wall allows the public outside to look
into the atrium, which contains several distinctly shaped rehearsal rooms.
These spaces have theatrical lighting and performances can be seen from an
adjacent park. People in the park can also watch concerts on a 7,000-square-
foot outdoor projection screen.

50. Cinematheque Francaise,
Paris
Gehry’s building along Paris’s rue de Bercy opened in 1994 as the
headquarters of the American Center of Paris, but closed a year and a half
later. In 2005 it became home to the Cinémathèque Française, a theater and
archive of film history.

51. Fondation Louis Vuitton,
Paris
Commissioned by LVMH chief Bernard Arnault and completed in 2014, Frank
Gehry’s Fondation Louis Vuitton is set in Paris’s Bois de Boulogne park. The
shiplike exterior includes 12 glass “sails,” which cover the concrete-clad
gallery spaces.

53. Vitra Design Museum – Weil am
Rhein, Germany
Since the early 1980s, furniture manufacturer Vitra has enlisted up-and-
coming architects to create buildings for its campus in Weil am Rhein. Among
them is Gehry's Vitra Design Museum, which opened in 1989. For the 8,000-
square-foot venue, Gehry piled simple simple geometric forms against a cubic
volume, unifying them all with white plaster surfaces and zinc roofing.

54. Loyola Law School – Los Angeles
The 1978 commission to expand Loyola Law School would propel Gehry into
institutional work. He reimagined Loyola’s downtown Los Angeles site as a
neotraditional campus, arranging a stylistically diverse set of buildings and
surrounding them with a knoll-like landscape. During initial design work, a
strategy was developed to allow the expansion of the campus in several phases,
corresponding to the priorities of the school. The last phase of the design was
completed in 2003.

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