Frank Gehry is known as a deconstructivist architect. His early works in Los Angeles explored non-traditional forms and materials. A turning point was the Santa Monica Place mall, where he designed the interior first before constructing the exterior as a "huge sign." His later Lewis Building used digital tools to evolve radically between 1997-2000, incorporating traces of his past projects. Some of Gehry's most famous buildings include the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

1. FRANK GEHRY AS A DECONSTRUCTIVIST
 The architecture of Frank Gehry, is closely related
to that of the city of Los Angeles.
 He escapes the monumental, ignored the topological
criteria, and bears with the mark, the stigma of the
temporary and the ephemeral.
 He will respect a way of doing things but to him
environmental pre-existence does not count.
 Some of his early works started by studying
different architectures in Los Angeles.
 His first work was the house of the artist Ron Davis which was
built in 1972.
 He took the idea of how Davis draws his paintings and came up with
something similar for the drawings of the house of Davis.
 Gehry wanted to be close to the freedom of an artist so he always
discovered the materials that he wanted to use for building house
instead of just focusing on the drawings of the building.
Santa monica house
 the turning point of his career was the Santa Monica Place, which
caused a huge shift in Gehry’s work.
 In the Santa Monica Place of 1972-1980, he changes his way of
constructing the outside before the
inside.
 In this project, he designs the inside
of the shopping mall completely,
according to the logic that was
dictated by the program.
 He later constructed the outside of
the building but not as an
architectural form or gesture, but as
a huge sign saying “Santa Monica
Place.”this was the change in Gehry’s
work.
 His work had a complete change at that point because of instead
of working from the outside in, he begins to work from the inside
out.
The lewis building
 The full transformation of Gehry's work is clearly seen in the
Lewis building. The Lewis building was mainly done on the computer
using two different architects
each with their own opinion.
 It is necessary to distinguish
Lynn’s idea of the digital
versus that of Gehry and also
between the conceptual in
Lynn and the phenomenal in
Gehry.

2. FRANK GEHRY AS A DECONSTRUCTIVIST
 The invocation of the digital part is important for the
understanding of the evolution of the Lewis Building.
 This building went through a huge evolution from 1997 up until
2000.
 The final model was done in 2000, where there was a little bit of
an argument over whether they should go with the digital or the
analogue.
 The final product showed many traces that were taken from all of
Gehry's previous projects that were discussed earlier on.
Significant Buildings:
 1967: Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, Maryland (first
Gehry structure reviewed by The New York Times)
 1978: Gehry House (Gehry's private home), Santa Monica CA
 1993: Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
 1994: American Center, Paris, France (first building in Paris)
 1997: Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
 2000: The Experience Music Project (EMP), Seattle, Washington
 2001: Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College,
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
 2003: Maggie's Centre, Dundee, Scotland
 2004: MIT Stata Complex, Cambridge MA
 1989-2004: Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles CA
 2004: Jay Pritzker Music Pavillion, Chicago, Illinois
 2005: 'MARTa' Museum, Herford, Germany
 2007: IAC Building, New York City
 2008: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, Kensington Gardens, London,
UK
 2011: New York By Gehry, New York City
 2014: Biomuseo, Museum of Biodiversity, Panama City, Panama
 2014: Louis Vuitton Foundation Museum, Paris, France
 2015: Dr Chau Chak Wing Building, University of Technology
Sydney (UTS), Gehry's first building in Australia
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3. FRANK GEHRY AS A DECONSTRUCTIVIST