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A stunning 600-page survey of an architectural genius' building designs.

Frank 0. Gehry is one of the world's most innovative and acclaimed architects, with an active career spanning nearly four decades. His heart-stopping designs can be seen across the globe, and while the buildings' functions vary, all share Gehry's signature elements: ingenious manipulations of light, shadow and geometry.

This exciting retrospective of Gehry's work is the first published in more than a decade and features hundreds of superb full-color photographs illustrating a selection of of the architect's most important designs. Five introductory essays detail his inventive use of cutting-edge technology and diverse materials, and his mastery of light, form and sculpture. Informative chapters come together with striking photographs to reveal the precision and poise of Gehry's buildings.

The selected projects range from the architect's tentative start in Los Angeles to his most famous commissions worldwide. They include:

Edgemar Project (Santa Monica) American Center (Paris) Vila Olimpica (Barcelona) Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles) Goldstein Housing (Frankfurt) Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao) Pa riser Platz 3 (Berlin) Richard B. Bard Fisher Center (Bard College, New York State) Maggie's Centre (Dundee, Scotland) Millennium Park's Pritzker Pavillion (Chicago).

There are also photographs of Gehry's furniture designs plus discussions of his preferred materials and specific features: windows, metal, wood and natural light. Stimulating text and images by premier architectural photographers provide exclusive insight into one of the most creative minds in architecture.

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• Form, Function, Sculpture
• Beginnings in Los Angeles: Hymn to Artificiality
• From Outsider to Rising Star: Improvisation and Composition
• The "Bilbao Effect": The Trajectory to Global Architect
• Metamorphosis of Idea to Form: Gehry's Design Process
• Selected Works 1969 to Today
• Edgemar Project
• Santa Monica, California 1984-1988
• Windows
• Vitra Design Museum
• Weil am Rhein, Germany 1987-1989
• Edges Furniture
• Easy Edges 1969-1973
• Experimental Edges 1979-1982
• American Center
• Paris, France 1988-1994
• Vila Olimpica
• Barcelona, Span 1989-1992
• Building with Metal
• Disney Concert Hall
• Los Angeles, California 1988-2003
• EMR Center
• Bad Oeynhausen, Germany 1991-1995
• Bentwood Furniture
• Knoll International 1989-1992
• Goldstein Housing
• Frankfurt, Germany 1991-1996
• Guggenheim Bilbao
• Bilbao, Spain 1991-1997
• Natural Light
• Nationale Nederlanden Building
• Prague, Czech Republic 1992-1996
• Der Neue Zollhof
• Düsseldorf, Germany 1994-2001
• FOG Furniture
• Knoll Intentional 1999
• Pariser Platz 3
• Berlin, Germany 1994-1999
• Ronald Macdonald House
• Bad Oeynhausen, Germany 1999-2002
• Building with Wood
• Bard Theater
• Annandale, New York 2000-2003
• Stata Center
• Cambridge, Massachusetts 2000-2004
• Marta Museum
• Herford, Germany 2002-2005
• Millennium Park Bandstand
• Chicago, Illinois 1998-2004
• Bibliography
• Photographers

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Form, Function, Sculpture In the 1960s, when Frank Gehry decided to leave the rigidity of then dominant late modernism behind, nobody, least of all the architect himself, could know where the path would lead. Rather than accepting the drab conventionality of the architectural marketplace, Gehry seeks creative dialogue with artists. The work of people like painter Mark Rothko, whose paintings are abstract yet deeply spiritual, convinced him that architecture can do more than fulfill mere pragmatic functions. He uses the artist's devices, especially the sculptor's, to imbue his buildings with a holistic depth that never derails into rigidity. His is an architecture that elevates the chaos, fast-lane superficiality and eternal sunshine of his hometown, Los Angeles, to poetry. With the demise of postmodernism in the early 1990s, Gehry offered an alternative. By rejuvenating the guiding paradigms of modernism, he shows that the long-dead believed principle "form follows function" can be interpreted in a myriad of new ways. Additionally, Gehry skillfully uses new technologies to realize expressionistic forms that allow the visionary utopian visions of early modernism to become reality. Armed with ebullient yet uncompromising creativity, Gehry continues his ceaseless search for new solutions. As such, this book documents the inquisitive exploration of an architect for whom "architecture is an obsession." Excerpted from Frank O. Gehry: Selected Works: 1969 to Today by Casey C. M. Mathewson All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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Library Journal Review

Frank O. Gehry is arguably one of America's most important contemporary architects. His designs resemble sculpture as much as architecture and include such buildings as the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain, and the Millennium Park Bandstand in Chicago. Here, Mathewson (XXSmall Houses) reviews Gehry's windows, furniture, and his use of natural light, as well as highlights specific buildings and includes hundreds of artfully composed color photographs of Gehry's interior and exterior projects. This is not, however, the definitive book on Gehry's work. It has sparse sections of text and lacks an index, Gehry's own voice is notably missing, and there are no detailed comments about Gehry's creative process, his influences, criticism, or problems encountered in design and construction. It will instead be of interest to patrons wanting a quick overview of Gehry's work, those interested in investigating images of the many angles of his structures, and those who appreciate architectural photography. Recommended for public libraries with architecture and photography collections.--Valerie Nye, Coll. of Santa Fe, NM (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

The great architects, those who radically alter our notion of the way buildings should look and feel, attain almost godlike status in the cultural pantheon. Today's best-known master builder is Gehry, who takes a sculptor's approach to architecture. So prolific and innovative is Gehry that, like a poet, he merits a selected-works volume, and this is a magnificent book. With strikingly lit and perfectly composed color photographs on nearly every page, and relaxed yet expert to-the-point commentary, Mathewson's guide to the best of Gehry's curving, gleaming, gravity-defying buildings and cleverly arcing furniture explicates the architect's music-inspired design process, liberation from the virtual prison of boxiness, grandly expressionistic style, embrace of new technologies, and belief in architecture as a vehicle for enlightenment and enrichment. In building museums, concert halls, amphitheaters, office complexes, a cancer center, and university facilities, Gehry has created outsize flowers and shells among blocks and towers, buildings that glow in their curvilinear exuberance like dreams, transforming the streets of L.A., Bilbao, Prague, Düsseldorf, and Chicago, and nourishing our imaginations.--Seaman, Donna Copyright 2007 Booklist

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Casey C. M. Mathewson studied architecture in Oregon and Stuttgart. In 1988 he founded mab -- mathewson architektur berlin -- an institute devoted to building and research in architecture. He is the author of XXsmallHouses and Beach Houses .