Frank Gehry designed the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, completing construction in 2003. The building features an intricate exterior of overlapping sculptural forms clad in steel that has been called a work of art. Gehry aimed to create a space with intimate acoustics that represented the hull of a boat to connect the orchestra and audience through music. The design defies symmetry with organic volumes and surfaces bridged by glass, fulfilling an important role in the urban area through Gehry's unique vision.

1. Walt Disney Concert Hall
By Frank Gehry
PRESENTED BY: SADAF ZAMIR
ARCH15-21

2. Introduction – Frank Gehry
 Frank Gehry was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1929
 At the age of 17,he moved with his family to Los Angeles, California
and studies architecture at the University of Southern California
(1949–51; 1954).
 Later, he studies City Planning at Harvard University (1956–57).
 After working for several architectural firms, he established his own
company, Frank O. Gehry & Associates, in 1962 and established its
successor, Gehry Partners, in 2002.
 Since that time, he had designed public and private buildings on
America, Japan and Europe.
 Gehry’s work has earned him several of the most significant awards
in the architectural field. Including the Pritzker Architectural Prize in
1989.

3.  In his early work he built unique, quirky
structures that emphasized human scale
and contextual integrity. His early
experiments are perhaps best embodied
by the “renovations” he made to his own
home (1978, 1991–94) in Santa Monica,
California.
 Gehry essentially stripped the two-story
home down to its frame and then built a
chain-link and corrugated-steel frame
around it, complete with asymmetrical
protrusions of steel rod and glass.
 Gehry made the traditional bungalow—
and the architectural norms it
embodied—appear to have exploded
wide open.

4. Before
After

5. Famous Quotes by Frank Gehry
 “I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.”
 “Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours
are and work with them.”
 “The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.”
 Every building is by its nature a sculpture. You can’t help it. Sculpture is a
three-dimensional object and so is a building.”
 “An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes
the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.”
 “Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the
greatest at it, but when you do it, you’re the only expert.”

6. Design Philosophy
 Much of Gehrey’s work falls within the Style of Destructivism, which is often
referred to as post-structuralist in nature for its ability to go beyond current
modalities of structural definition. This can be seen in Gehry’s house in Santa
Monica
 De-constructivism is distinguished through the notion of fragmentation, an interest
in reworking designs of a structure's surface or skin, into non-rectilinear forms,
which result in the distortion and dislocation of the architectural elements, such as
structure and envelope.
 Gehry’s style at times seems unfinished or even crude, but his work is consistent.
Gehry has been called,
“The apostle of chain-link fencing and corrugated
metal sliding.”

7. Over view of his famous
Dancing House Dr. Chao Chal Wing
Building

8. Lou Ruvo Center
Olympic Fish Pavilion

9. Stata Center
The IAC Building

10. Vitra Design Museum
Richard B. Fisher Center

11. Brief introduction of Building allocated
 In 1987, Lilian Disney donated $50 million to establish a concert hall in honor of
her late husband, Walt. Frank Gehry was selected from among several candidates
during a design competition the following year. His proposal was largely oriented
toward the public, with much of the site allocated to open gardens. Several years
into the project, a combination of political and managerial impediments threatened
its realization. It was shut down in 1994, but revived by a press and fund-raising
campaign two years later.
 Opened in 2003 after many years of gestation.
 Construction cost: $130 million
 Area: 200000.0 ft2

12. Design 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. The
building also fulfills an important role in urban areas

13. Architectural Drawings
These are the very first sketches Frank
Gehry drew for this historical building.

14. PLAN

15. Side Elevation

16. Elevations

17. Drawings from different
perspective.