In this class we consider some of the works of Frank Gehry across the course of his career.

1. Frank Gehry
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2. Frank Gehry
• Santa Monica Place, Santa Monica, CA (1980)
• Venice Beach House (1986)
• Loyola Law School (1990)
• Chiat Day, Los Angeles (1991)
• Schnabel House, Los Angeles
• Team Disney Administration Building (1997)
• Hotel Marqués de Riscal, Spain (2006)
• IAC Building, Manhattan (2007)

3. plan of Santa Monica Place, showing vehicle and pedestrian access

4. Frank Gehry, Santa Monica Place, exterior, south entrance

5. south side parking garage with screenprinted chainlink ornament

6. detail, south side parking garage

7. north entrance

8. It doubled as the exterior of the Ridgemont Mall in FastTimes at Ridgemont High, 1982

9. Frank Gehry, Santa Monica Place, interior

11. Venice Beach House (1986)
• house on tiny oceanfront lot inVenice Beach
• low budget project
• how to create privacy while maintaining
views?

12. house from street side
bottom level houses
garage, studio
and two bedrooms

13. Frank Gehry,Venice Beach House, 1986
second level houses main living spaces and
deck with ladder to crow's nest

14. ladder ascends from second floor deck

15. third floor has one additional
bedroom and external
ladder to roof deck

16. detail of "crow's nest"

17. Chiat/Day Building, 1997
• includes large figural sculpture byClaes
Oldenburg, called Giant Binoculars

18. plan for Chiat/Day offices

21. detail of facade

22. Mike Kelley, Proposal for the Decoration of an Island of Conference Rooms (with Copy
Room) for an Advertising Agency Built by Frank Gehry, 1991, unbuilt

23. Mike Kelley, Proposal for the Decoration of an Island of Conference Rooms (with Copy
Room) for an Advertising Agency Built by Frank Gehry, 1991, unbuilt

24. Hotel Marqués de Riscal (2006)
• 150 year old winery in the Rioja region of
Spain
• reconceived as tourist destination with five-
star hotel, winery, spa, and brand-name
architecture

44. IAC Building 2007
• 555W 18th St, NewYork, NY 10011 at
EleventhAvenue
• first Gehry building in NewYork
• 10 stories, $62 million, technical significance

46. A bit of Jean Nouvel's 100 11th Avenue (2010) is visible at the left of the photo.

47. detail of facade

49. detail of facade at street level

51. IAC building, lobby

52. technical details: glass
• Of 1,450 curtain wall units, 1,150 are unique. Units measure 35ft by 22ft. In
some corners of the building, the glass twists 150 degrees from ground to
roof.
• First glass curtain wall to be cold-warped (bent into shape on site).
• Glass is coated with ceramic particles to increase energy efficiency.
• Every unit contains three sheets of glass, two laminated and the third
one, tempered, separated by an insulated air space.

53. technical details: concrete I
• Concrete frame has a typical 12 inch floor with
spans up to 35 feet.
• 5,000 psi concrete used throughout the
structure.
• Cast in place concrete results in outstanding
acoustic properties and fireproofing.

54. technical details: concrete II
• Only two columns of the frame are vertical.
Some are angled as 25 degrees from vertical.
• The 12 inch thick shear wall in the building's
core, serves as a weight to counteract the
twisting effect of the columns.This wall also
encases the fire stairs in the building.

55. technical details: concrete III
• A two-day cycle allows for a new floor of
concrete to be poured every other day, using
additives for faster setting.
• Reduces floor slab completion time by 50%, if
compared to traditional structural steel floor
system.