Frank Gehry

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Frank Gehry, 2007

Frank Owen Gehry , CC [ fɹæŋk ˈoʊən ˈɡɛəɹi ] (born  February 28, 1929 in Toronto ; actually Frank Owen Goldberg ) is a Canadian - American architect and designer who has lived in California since 1947 . In 1989 he was awarded the Pritzker Prize for his deconstructivist architecture . The New York Times described him as “the most highly praised US architect since Frank Lloyd Wright“(1867-1959). His extremely expressive Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, which was completed in 1997, had and still has such a great impact on the city and beyond that Bilbao has been able to develop from an old industrial to a modern “city of culture”. This change was so exemplary that it now has its own technical term: the Bilbao Effect .

Life

Gehry's home in Santa Monica

Gehry is the son of Irving and Thelma Goldberg, whose parents came to the country as immigrants of Jewish-Polish origin . His father operated the sale of gambling machines to the bars in the area of Timmins in eastern Ontario, which was then a gold rush town , until the state ban . As a boy, he put together his first houses and towns from the waste from his grandfather's iron and household goods store. Gehry studied architecture at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles until 1954, when he financed his studies by driving truck transports. One of the teachers was Gregory Ain .

His first wife Anita was unhappy with his surname and so she and her mother suggested to him in 1954 that Goldberg be changed to the less obviously Jewish name Gehry, which he did immediately. He then took up a second degree in urban planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design . Since 1962 he has been running his own architectural office in Los Angeles under the name Gehry Partners, LLP . During their first marriage (which ended in divorce in 1968) the couple had two daughters.

Gehry has been married to Panamanian Berta Isabel Aguilera since 1975 . He has two sons with her (born in 1976 and 1979). After the birth of their first son, the family moved to a larger house from the 1920s. His wife encouraged him to boldly redesign and expand her home in Santa Monica (where they still live) according to his ideas. In 1980 the building received an award from the American Institute of Architects (AIA).

architecture

At the beginning of his career, Gehry built conventionally. Towards the end of the 1970s he changed his architectural design language by starting to use supposedly “poor” materials such as plywood , corrugated iron and even corrugated cardboard in furniture construction . Since then, Gehry's architectural style has been characterized by angled levels, tilting rooms, inverted forms and broken geometry. As a typical deconstructivist building, his buildings have a collage-like character, in that diverging structural elements are linked, which are intended to create a flow of rooms into one another. He also designed numerous interior fittings and furniture designs.

Buildings and designs

Gehry Tower in Hanover
New Zollhof in Düsseldorf's Medienhafen
Stata Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Guggenheim Museum , Bilbao, Spain
Dancing House in Prague
Biodiversidad Museum in Panama City
Energy Forum Innovation in Bad Oeynhausen
Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, Nevada / USA
El Peix , Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta (Port Olímpic), Barcelona

In planning

Furniture

1969–1972 Gehry designed the cardboard furniture series "Easy Edges". Since 1990 the American company Knoll International has manufactured its seating furniture from curved, six to nine layers of glued white maple wood. The series also includes the Cross Check Chair .

Awards (selection)

Literature (selection)

Filmography

Web links

photos

Commons : Frank Gehry  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References

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  2. Frank Gehry. In: New York Times , June 9, 2009: "Frank Gehry, the most acclaimed American architect since Frank Lloyd Wright ..."
  3. a b c Alexander Linklater: He is the world's biggest architect, so what took Frank Gehry from Bilbao to a Scottish hillside? The love of a woman. In: The Herald (Scotland), September 13, 2003.
    “It was with her [Gehry's grandmother] that he would build little houses and cities out of scraps from his grandfather's hardware store. In 1997, Gehry told The New Yorker : That's what I remembered, years later, when I was struggling to find out what I wanted to do in life. "
  4. ^ Paul Goldberger: Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry , Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015, ISBN 9781101875803 . P. 73.
  5. Valerie Bodden: Gehry , Creative Co., 2008, ISBN 978-1-58341-662-4 , p. 16 in Google Books .
  6. Valerie Bodden: Gehry , Creative Co., 2008, p. 17.
  7. ^ Davis Studio and Residence. In: en.wikiarquitectura.com
  8. Frank Gehry & Architecture of the Disney Festival - The History of the Disney Village Part 2. In: dein-dlrp.de , June 2013.
  9. ^ Marqués de Riscal Winery. In: In: en.wikiarquitectura.com
  10. ^ Novartis Campus in Basel. In: arcspace.com , December 2, 2009, picture gallery, (English).
  11. Facebook campus In: Facebook
      Reuters : Facebook moves into new headquarters - including a park on the roof ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Der Standard , March 31, 2015, with picture gallery.
  12. Meet the Biomuseo • The Building. In: biomuseopanama.org , accessed October 25, 2015.
      A festival for all birds, mammals and reptiles. In: FAZ , October 6, 2014, page 16, beginning of the article.
  13. ^ Frank Gehry's Masterful Fondation Louis Vuitton Opens in Paris. In: Architectural Digest , October 2014.
  14. ^ Ulrich Paul: Design by Frank Gehry wins. The largest skyscraper in Berlin is being built on Alexanderplatz. In: Berliner Zeitung . January 27, 2014, accessed January 28, 2014 .
  15. Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 14, 2019 .
  16. nationalacademy.org: Living Academicians "G" / Gehry, Frank O., NA 1994 ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on June 23, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org
  17. ^ The White House: President Obama Names Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. November 16, 2016, accessed November 22, 2016 .
  18. Mariam Schaghaghi: “I wanted to understand Gehry.” In: Spiegel Online , July 5, 2007, interview with Pollack.
  19. ^ AO Scott: In 'Sketches of Frank Gehry,' a Design for Living Large. In: New York Times , May 12, 2006, with video.