Frank Gehry Biography

Original title: Conversations with Frank Gehry

Author: [American] Barbara Eisenberg

Translator: Su Fengya

Publisher: CITIC Press

Publishing year: 2013-4-1

Number of pages: 340

Pricing: 98.00 yuan He is A truck driver, he studied architecture in night school at night; he changed his name to gehry because of the formal sense of the letter arrangement;

He started his design career in the U.S. Army and designed the slogans of the military restrooms to look like the decorations of Catholic churches. Manuscript;

His work was called "that piece of shit!" to his face;

He designed a dog house, and buyers complained that the progress was too slow;

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His design plan attracted the President of Japan and the Republic of China to participate in the discussion;

He was also ridiculed by "The Simpsons" as an architect who looks for inspiration in trash cans...

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He is Frank Gehry, the most innovative and influential architect of our time. He is the contemporary master with the most landmark buildings and has received numerous recognitions including the Pritzker Prize, the highest honor in the architecture world. He is unruly and outspoken. His misunderstandings are almost as fierce as his admiration. He always sticks to himself in the face of suppressed voices around him. Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, "Dancing House" in Prague, Tiffany's jewelry... He only responds to doubts with continuous creation, boldly explores, and refuses self-plagiarism and self-limitation. His works, like the life stories he tells in his books, will always exceed your imagination.

This book is an interview biography of architect Frank Gehry. In the book, Gehry candidly shares with readers his life experience of more than eighty years, his childhood experiences, his growth as an architect The artist’s arduous journey, his thoughts on architecture and innovation, his life beliefs, the wonderful or sad stories behind each of his works, and the people and things that have had a profound impact on him... This is not just a book about Books about architecture and architects are also records of a life that breaks through difficulties in accumulation and precipitation. Recommended Preface

Foreword

Designing a Dream House

Chapter One: The Road to Learning

Getting Started - From Toronto to Los Angeles

Private Gehry’s military life

Go forward courageously—become a Harvard man

Should art have toilets? ——Gehry’s encounter with artists

Chapter 2: The Road to Innovation: Gehry’s Famous Overseas

The Temple on the Mississippi River—Inspiration, Art and Exhibition Space

Finally, becoming a local hero - the twists and turns of Disney Concert Hall

The Bilbao Effect

Chapter 3 Steady Expansion

Work Profile

Join hands with geniuses to create innovation - MIT Stata Center

Leap to the big screen and Tiffany showcase

Bi-coastal: Atlantic Academy and Grand Via

Gehry built a doghouse

Homecoming

Late Years

Acknowledgments If Frank Gehry’s architecture Cutting open the work, we can clearly see that behind the passionate and dynamic art form, there is also a logical and rigorous clue of modern functionalism hidden. The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is a vivid example. Behind the composite curved surface, a combination of multiple rectangular boxes of different scales realizes the basic pursuit of the "white cube" spatial characteristics of traditional art museums.

The individual and artistic form and the logic of modern functionalism are like the two intertwined curves of Frank Gehry’s DNA in his architectural life, clearly outlining the trajectory of his architectural life.

Architectural critics are often obsessed with the bohemian sculptural forms of Frank Gehry's buildings and his personality and style as a personal artist, but often ignore his sincere believer in modernism, which instinctively reflects that he is also a modern functionalist architect. Master, this instinct is like DNA, deeply rooted in his architectural life, originating from the era in which he grew up and received education.

There is no doubt that Frank Gehry is not an artist, because to this day, no artist has the opportunity and ability to control urban sculptures of such a large scale, but he is not a critic either. He is a pure architect in the eyes of architects because he has always subjectively believed: "Architecture is nothing but art." It is difficult for us to use today's architectural system to define his architecture, because he has no theory of his own and has never He rarely writes books and teaches. But in my opinion, Frank Gehry is the greatest architect of our time, an architect as an artist, because he left for this era architectural myths that can speak, full of emotion and artistic taste. .

——The famous architect Zhu Pei