Frank Gehry is a Canadian-born American architect based in Los Angeles. He was born in 1929 and is cited as one of the most important contemporary architects. Gehry's works have evolved from using materials like plywood and corrugated metal to more sculptural designs using distorted forms and complex shapes. One of his most famous works is the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, which opened in 2003. The design of the concert hall represents Gehry's signature style through its unusual curving forms that defy symmetry and resemble a boat.

2.  Frank Owen Gehry is a
Canadian-born American
architect, residing in Los
Angeles.
 He was born on February
28,1929.
 His works are cited as being
among the most important
works of contemporary
architecture in the 2010
World Architecture Survey

3.  “Every building is by its very nature a sculpture
.You can't help it .Sculpture is a three-dimensional
object and so is a building.”
-Frank O. Gehry
 “I approach each building as a sculptural object, a
spatial container, a space with light and air, a
response to context and appropriateness of feeling
and spirit. To this container, this sculpture , the user
begins his baggage, his program, and interacts with
it to accommodate his needs . If he can’t do that,
I’ve failed.”
-Frank O. Gehry

4.  Gehry’s architecture has undergone a marked
evolution from the plywood and corrugated-
metal vernacular of his early works to the
distorted but pristine concrete of his later works.
However, the works retain a deconstructed
aesthetic that fits well with the increasingly
disjointed culture to which they belong.
 Most recently, Gehry has combined sensuous
curving forms withcomplex deconstructive
massing, achieving significant new results.

6.  The Walt Disney Concert Hall, designed by the architect
Frank Gehry, opened in 2003 after many years of gestation.
 The history of the building began in 1987 when Lillian Walt
Disney, widow of businessman donates $ 50 million to start
building a philharmonic hall. The idea was to create a
reference point for music, art and architecture, which
position the city of Los Angeles in the cultural level.
 The proposed Gehry was chosen after an international
competition in which they were submitted over 70
proposals. The architect imposed its characteristic style,
which can be seen in the rest of his works. While the
construction of this building is later, the design was done
before the Guggenheim Bilbao.
 Walt Disney Concert Hall is now the permanent
headquarters of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

8.  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 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.

9. To calculate the complex
shapes of the curves Walt
Disney Concert Hall was used
to Catia software.
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 violoncellos and
violas. Here was used in
floors, walls and ceilings.

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