Brief introduction of Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry was born in a Jewish family in Toronto, Canada, on February 28th, 1929. After he was 17 years old, he immigrated to California, USA, and became a famous contemporary deconstructionist architect, famous for designing buildings with strange and irregular curves and sculptural appearance. He is now naturalized in the United States and lives in Los Angeles. He is a famous professor of architecture at Columbia University in new york. Gehry's design style originated from latemodernism, and the most famous building is the MuseoGuggenheimBilbao with a titanium roof in Bilbao, Spain.

Chinese name: FrankGehry

mbth: Frank Gehry

Nationality: Canada

Place of birth: Toronto, Canada

Date of birth: February 28, 1929

Occupation: architect

Graduation institution: University of Southern California

Major achievement: Pritzker Architecture Award

Wolf. Guggenheim museum bilbao and Europe Disney Entertainment Center

Life Introduction

Frank Gehry was born in a Jewish family in Toronto on February 28th, 1929.

After p>17 years old, he immigrated to California, USA, and became a famous contemporary deconstructionist architect, who is famous for designing buildings with strange irregular curves and sculptural appearance. He is a naturalized American and lives in Los Angeles. He is a famous professor of architecture at Columbia University in new york. Gary's design style originated from latemodernism, and the most famous building is the MuseoGuggenheimBilbao, Spain, which has a titanium roof.

In p>1929, Frank Gehry was born in Toronto, Canada, and later transferred to California, where he obtained a master's degree in architecture from the University of Southern California. After graduation, he worked in urban planning at Harvard University.

before establishing his own company-Franko. Gehryandasssociates, Inc. in 1962, he worked with VictorGruen(1953-1954) and Pereira &; Luckman(1957-1958), and AndreRe-mondet in Paris, etc. He was an assistant professor at the University of Southern California (1972-1973) and the University of California, Los Angeles (1988-1989) and a guest commentator at Harvard University (1983), Rice University (1976) and the University of California (1977-1979). In 1982, 1985, 1987, 1988 and 1989, he held the position of Professor CharlotteDavenport in the Department of Architecture of Yale University. In 1984, he served as EliotNoyes Lecturer at Harvard University. In October, 1986, an important retrospective exhibition about his works was hosted by Walker Art Center. This exhibition was toured by Minneapolis to Atlanta, Houston, Toronto and Los Angeles, and closed at Whitney Museum of American Art in new york. In 1974, he was elected as a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). He became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Literature in 1987 and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science in 1991. In 1989, he won the Pritzk-er Prize for Architecture, and in the same year he was nominated as the director of the American Institute of Architecture in Rome. In 1992, he won the Wolf Architectural Art Award and was nominated as the winner of the highest honor award in the field of architecture in 1992, which was awarded by the Japan Art Association. In 1994, he became the first winner of LillianGishAward's Lifelong Contribution Art Award. In the same year, he was awarded the title of academician by the National Design Institute. He received honorary doctorates from California Institute of Arts and Technology, NovaScotia Technical University, Rhode Island School of Design, california institute of the arts, and Otis School of Art, Parsons School of Design. He is also the winner of the ArnoldW.Brunner Architecture Memorial Award of the American Academy of Arts and Literature.

Design style

Frank Gehry is inspired by the university culture of Southern California, but lacks an idealized form. Gehry has widely absorbed abstract fragments from the art world and sporadic supplements from the urban environment. Gary's works are quite unique and individual, and most of his works are rarely mixed with socialization and ideology. He usually uses polygonal planes, inclined structures, inverted forms and various material forms and applies visual effects to patterns. Gary uses fractured geometry to break traditional customs. For him, fracturing means exploring an ambiguous social order.

In many instances, Gary divorced form from function, and established a successful idea and an abstract urban institution instead of an overall architectural structure. In many ways, he treats the construction work as sculpture, and this three-dimensional structure diagram has many forms through centralized processing. Art is often the source of Gary's inspiration, and his interest in art can be learned from his architectural works. At the same time, art made him use the open architectural structure for the first time, which made people feel that it was an invisible change, not a deliberate one. The buildings designed by Gary are usually surreal, abstract and occasionally deeply confusing, so the information it conveys is often misunderstood. Nevertheless, the architecture designed by Gary still presents its unique, noble and mysterious atmosphere.

Gary seems to be out of tune with American cities. He uses various materials and architectural forms, and integrates humor, mystery and dreams into his architectural system. He once said: "I like this invisible beauty in the process of construction, and this beauty is often lost in the process of technological manufacturing." In his early work, Gary boldly used open space, various raw materials and informal forms to build. Gehry's architecture also includes ordinary processes, such as continuing life, evolving life and growing life.

Introduction

Gehry's works are quite unique and have great personality, and most of his works are rarely mixed with socialization and ideology. He usually uses polygonal planes, inclined structures, inverted forms and various material forms and applies visual effects to patterns. In many cases, he treats the construction work as sculpture, and this three-dimensional structure diagram has many forms through centralized processing.

Gary seems to be out of tune with American cities. He uses various materials and architectural forms, and integrates humor, mystery and dreams into his architectural system. In his early work, Gary boldly used open space, various raw materials and informal forms to build buildings.

Gehry's design covers a wide range, including shopping centers, houses, parks, museums, banks, restaurants, plywood furniture and curved chairs, etc. Moreover, plywood chairs are quite popular in the market, so critics criticized him for acting recklessly under the signboard of art, but Gehry did not stop his creation because of this. The materials he used ranged from wood accepted by the public to unexpected metal barbed wire. Although his works are different from other works to a great extent, they are more or less related in some categories. However, compared with traditional urban functions, forms, space and overall appearance, Gary's works are quite superior. He has created a unique style and opened a new chapter in architectural form.

Gehry found the * * * sound between architecture and art, which is obviously indistinct, natural and artificial, old and new, dark and transparent, blocked and empty. This is the clearest contrast between Gehry and other architectural works, so Gehry is known as "Picasso in architecture".

deeply influenced by the cultural characteristics of the city of los Angeles and the local radical artists, Gehry's early buildings are keen to explore the application of cheap materials such as barbed wire, corrugated board and rough metal plate in the building, and adopt various means such as collage, jumble, juxtaposition, dislocation, blurred boundary, decentralization, non-hierarchy, non-dimensionality, etc. to challenge people's established architectural values and bound imagination. His works have caused an uproar in the architectural world. Those who love them are praised as geniuses, while those who hate them are destroyed as rubbish. Gary, as always, is full of creativity and unstoppable. Finally, more and more people tolerate Gary, understand Gary, and increasingly realize the value of Gary's creation to the world.

Major Works

Walt Disney Concert Hall

guggenheim museum bilbao

Chiat/Day/ Mojo Company Headquarters

EMR Communication and Technology Center Vitera Company Headquarters

Norton House

European Disney Entertainment Center

Santa Monica Home

Vitera Furniture Museum

University of Cincinnati Molecular Research Center

New Customs Building

Indiana Avenue House

weismann Museum

University of Iowa Laboratory Building

Netherlands International. Learn visual arts center

CONDENAST Cafe Berlin DG Bank

Edgemar Shopping Center

Loyola Law School

Anaheim Community Skating Center

Boston Children's Museum

Maggie Cancer Center

Prague Nederland Building

Dancing House (Netherlands National Life Insurance Company Building)

Appreciation of Louis Vuitton Foundation

. Guggenheim Museum

Location: Spain

Design: The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Frank F.O.Gehry, was officially completed and opened in 1997. It is a part of the whole urban renewal plan of the industrial city Bilbao. At the beginning, the construction was started at a cost of $1 million. The whole structure was gradually designed by California architect FFrankO.Gehry with the help of a set of computer software used by V Aerodynamics. The museum uses glass, steel and limestone as building materials, and some surfaces are covered with titanium, which echoes the long-standing tradition of shipbuilding in the city. The museum covers an area of 24, square meters, and the exhibition space is 11, square meters. It is divided into 19 exhibition halls, one of which is one of the largest art galleries in the world, with an area of 13 meters by 3 meters. This cultural attraction has attracted many people to visit Bilbao, and the number of visitors has increased from 26, to 1 million every year. Museums have revitalized the local economy (the net value of industrial products in Basque province has increased by as much as five times) and brought new life to the P/E ratio. In 1997, a groundbreaking architectural masterpiece was born in Bilbao, a medium-sized city in Spain. It immediately attracted worldwide attention with its fantastic shape, unique structure and brand-new materials, and was exclaimed as "a miracle" by the press, calling it "the most meaningful and beautiful museum in the world." It is guggenheim museum bilbao.

In p>1991, the municipal government of the northern Spanish city of Bilbao and the Guggenheim Foundation made a decision with far-reaching influence on the future development of the city: Frank Gehry, an American architect, was invited to design the Guggenheim Museum to be built in the city.

luggage works

when p>FrankGehry designed this Monogram canvas handbag for Louis Vuitton's "tribute to Monogram" project, he imagined an irregular shape of a soft handbag placed on one side, endowed it with hard box material, and perfectly recorded this state with the concept of sculpture. The exquisite TwistedBox handbag has become the most challenging work in the whole "tribute to Monogram" series, which perfectly combines the iconic rigid lines and elegant curves of Louis Vuitton hard box, making people fondle it. Press the golden brass spring hook, and you will see the exquisite blue lambskin lining decorated with Monogram pattern embossed by FrankGehry.

jewelry works

FrankGehry was born in Toronto, Canada. He is a famous architect. This is a series of jewelry he designed for Tiffany. He used a series of different materials, such as black gold, Pernambuco wood, cocholong stone, etc. Together with other materials, such as pure silver, diamonds and precious stones, he created six themes in this series. The creativity came from structural elements, childhood memories, Renaissance masters and contemporary painters.

anecdotes about people

Another "Frank"

Americans like to call Frank Gehry "Another Frank" because there is a famous Frank Lloyd Wright ahead. Gary, on the other hand, doesn't like being constantly compared with Wright. He always emphasizes that he is not Wright's type, but he has become a household name. Except for another Frank, no other architect in this century is better. Because he is a star, Gary also made a lecture tour, which was to promote his new book "Gary said architecture and process".

Warm wine

The real reputation of Frank Gehry still comes from Bilbao. After the completion of guggenheim museum bilbao, the architectural and artistic circles have different opinions on the museum that he designed and built here as an alien visitor, and the popular cultural circles also have different attitudes. Some TV celebrities clearly expressed their dislike for it, and some big-name singers were willing to choose the grass in front of its courtyard to dance, while tourists and architectural enthusiasts were completely fascinated by it. Anyway, after Bilbao, Gary became famous in the world for his wild sculpture-like form in architecture, which captured the hearts of countless people in Washington, new york and Boston, as well as the hearts of Spaniards. The mayor of Basque, Spain, gave him a bottle of 1929 wine in order to make him a small brewery. Don't forget that he was born in 1929. So he took up the job.

The Rock Museum in Seattle

When it becomes a star, it always comes up with tricks. This trick that Gary plays again is designed for the Rock Museum in Seattle. This museum was commissioned by Paul Allen, one of the founders of Micro. When asked by Newsweek reporter what kind of museum he will build, Gary said, "Allen people are very nice. I asked him what he wanted. He said that he wants a' handsome boy', which is very funny, that is, very sweet. " Gary seemed to be confused, so he took Allen to his office and asked him to point out which model was handsome. As a result, he chose DG Bank in Berlin and a conference center nicknamed "Matou", which was also one of Gary's masterpieces. Gary started the design.

Biography

Original title: ConversationswithFra