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    Frank Gehry is an American architect known for his deconstructivist style characterized by fragmented and distorted forms. Some of his most iconic works include the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, known for its dramatic curved and folded titanium exterior. He also designed the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, with a sail-like stainless steel exterior housing an auditorium lined with Douglas fir panels. Gehry's architecture has evolved from using materials like plywood and corrugated metal in his early career to employing pristine concrete in his later works while maintaining a deconstructed aesthetic.

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    Frank Gehry is an American architect known for his deconstructivist style characterized by fragmented and distorted forms. Some of his most iconic works include the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, known for its dramatic curved and folded titanium exterior. He also designed the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, with a sail-like stainless steel exterior housing an auditorium lined with Douglas fir panels. Gehry's architecture has evolved from using materials like plywood and corrugated metal in his early career to employing pristine concrete in his later works while maintaining a deconstructed aesthetic.

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    Frank Gehry is an American architect known for his deconstructivist style characterized by fragmented and distorted forms. Some of his most iconic works include the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, known for its dramatic curved and folded titanium exterior. He also designed the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, with a sail-like stainless steel exterior housing an auditorium lined with Douglas fir panels. Gehry's architecture has evolved from using materials like plywood and corrugated metal in his early career to employing pristine concrete in his later works while maintaining a deconstructed aesthetic.

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    Frank Gehry is an American architect known for his deconstructivist style characterized by fragmented and distorted forms. Some of his most iconic works include the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, known for its dramatic curved and folded titanium exterior. He also designed the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, with a sail-like stainless steel exterior housing an auditorium lined with Douglas fir panels. Gehry's architecture has evolved from using materials like plywood and corrugated metal in his early career to employing pristine concrete in his later works while maintaining a deconstructed aesthetic.

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    JAGANNATH UNIVERSITY

    SUBJECT – HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE


    TOPIC – FRANK GEHRY

    SUBMITTED TO – AR MANISH
    SUBMITTED BY – LALIMA GUPTA
    INTRODUCTION

    • Gehry was born frank owen goldberg on february 28, 1929, in toronto,
    ontario.

    • He was a truck driver in l.A., Going to city college, and he tried radio
    announcing, which he wasn't very good at.

    •During that time, he became a member of alpha epsilon pi

    •He tried chemical engineering, which he wasn't very good at

    •Gehry graduated at the top of his class with a bachelor of architecture degree
    from the university of southern california's school of architecture in 1954.
    In 1952 he married anita snyder, and in
    1956 he changed his name to frank o.
    Gehry at her suggestion.

    •He spent time away from the field of


    architecture in numerous

    •In 2004, he designed the trophy for the


    world cup of hockey. Hockey world cup
    trophy

    •He would spend time drawing with his


    father and his mother introduced him to the
    world of art. "So the creative genes were
    there“
    IDEOLOGY
    Although frank gehry does not personally associate with the movement, critics
    primarily consider his design philosophy to be deconstructivism, an approach
    characterized by fragmentation and distortions of traditional structure, informed by
    his belief that all artists should be true to themselves.

    • Modernist architecture reflects contemporary philosophies regarding social


    harmony and machine-like organization.

    • Deconstructivism is thus called as it attempts to destabilize modernist thinking by


    breaking up design into highly stylized, individual parts.
    WORKS
    THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
    The guggenheim museum in balboa, spain, gehry’s most iconic
    work, features an exterior of titanium, glass and limestone that is
    both rectangular and traditional and also dramatically curved
    and folded.

    Gehry’s architecture has undergone a marked evolution from the


    plywood and corrugated-metal vernacular of his early works to
    the distorted but pristine concrete of his later works.

    However, the works retain a deconstructed aesthetic that fits well


    with the increasingly disjointed culture to which they belong.
    WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL, LOS ANGELES,
    CALIFORNIA

    Gehry was shortlisted to devise a new


    home for the Los Angeles Philharmonic in
    1988; the project, the Walt Disney Concert
    Hall, finally opened in 2003.

    Today critics and the public agree that the


    iconic building was worth the wait.
    Reflecting Gehry’s longtime passion for
    sailing, the structure’s exterior features
    expanses of stainless steel that billow
    above Grand Avenue, while inside,
    similarly shaped panels of Douglas fir line
    the auditorium.

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