In this 3rd Edition, TRENDZINE brings to you a special guest! Known as a master of postmodern designs, Frank Gehry is one of the most acclaimed architects of the 20th century. Let’s get back in time, and fall in love with his best architectural projects…
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HIS STORY
Frank Gehry was born in Toronto, Canada on February 28, 1929. He had studied at the University of Southern California and Harvard University. Gehry, based in Los Angeles since the 1960s, is known for his use of bold, postmodern shapes and unusual fabrications. His most famous designs include: the Walt Disney Concert Hall (Lost Angeles), and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao (Spain).
Frank was creative at a young age, building imaginary homes and cities from items found in his grandfather’s hardware store. This interest in unconventional building materials would come, in the future, to characterize Gehry’s architectural work.
Gehry has hold a variety of jobs while attending college, in 1949. It was during his time in University of Southern California’s School of Architecture that he has changed is Goldberg surname to Gehry- in an effort to preclude anti-Semitism. Back in 1956, Gehry has moved to Massachusetts with his wife, Anita Snyder, to join the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He later dropped out Harvard and divorced his wife- with whom he had two daughters. And, later, in 1975, Gehry married Berta Isabel Aguilera and had two more children.
HIS CARRER
Primarily involved in building rather than furniture design, Gehry had remodeled a home for his family in Santa Monica with the money earned from “Easy Edges”- his own cardboard furniture line.
The remodel involved surround the existing bungalow with corrugated steel and chain-link fence, effectively splitting the house open with an angled skylight. His Avant- garde design just caught the attention of the architectural world! This has launching Gehry career to new heights. So, he began designing homes in Southern California on a regular basis in 1980’s.
As Gehry achieved vip status, his work took on a grander scale. His high-concept buildings, including the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles, the Dancing House in Prague and the Guggenheim Museum building in Bilbao, Spain, have become tourist attractions in their own right. He has returned to his roots as a residential designer, in 2011, unveiling his first skyscraper, 8 Spruce Street in New York City, and the Opus Hong Kong tower in China.
Gehry style can be characterized by a deconstructivity style- a post -structuralist aesthetic that challenges accepted design paradigms of architecture while breaking with the modernist ideal of form following function.
HIS WORK
Take a look at 15 amazing buildings by Frank Gehry, a winning architect over the past five decades…
The IAC Building- New York City
Dancing House- Prague
Neuer Zollhof- Dusseldorf, Germany
Maggie’s Centre- Dundee, Scotland
Guggenheim Bilbao- Spain
EMP Museum- Seattle
Dz Bank building- Berlin
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