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ARCHITECT
FRANK O GEHRY
DE-CONSTRUCTIVISM
RAGHAV HANS ROHIT GUPTA POOJA TRIPATHI CHANIA BHATIA ANIRUDH
HISTORY
He was a creative child and his interest of architecture developed from playing
with scraps of wood and other off-cuts.
GEHRY'S SKETCHES
A Gehry building begins with a sketch, and Gehry's sketches are distinctive. They're characterized by a sense of off-hand improvisation, of intuitive
spontaneity.
The fine line is invariably fluid, impulsive. The drawings convey no architectural mass or weight, only loose directions and
shifting spatial relationships.
1984
Venice, California Designed in 1984 for artist Lynn Norton and writer William Norton, Frank Gehrys Norton House is known for its eccentric form and different materiality.
The ground floor is subtly set back from the street wall. The second floor
contains the main living spaces and is set farther back in an effort to maintain privacy.
Wooden shutters and timber pieces that rest geometrically on top of it contribute
to its resemblance of a lifeguard station, a reference applicable to William Nortons youth as a lifeguard.
OLYMPIC FISH
1992
Barcelona, Spain
The piece sits in the Port Olympic at the base of a large skyscraper, the Hotel Arts, one
of the tallest buildings in the city.
Ar. Frank Gehry was commissioned to build the piece for the 1992 Summer Olympics,
which were held in Barcelona and brought the city to the attention of the world.
It faces the sea and measures 35 by 54 meters (about 114 by 177 feet).
DANCING HOUSE
1996
Prague, Czech Republic
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
1997
Bilbao, Spain
The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art, designed
by Frank Gehry, located in Bilbao , Basque Country ,Spain.
The curves on the exterior of the building were intended to appear random.
The randomness of the curves are designed to catch the light. The interior is designed around a large, light-filled atrium with views of Bilbao's
beauty and the surrounding hills of the Basque country.
The atrium, which Gehry nicknamed The Flower because of its shape, serves as
the organizing center of the museum.
Increasingly eccentric shapes and sweeping irregular curves from this project
contradicted the severely rectilinear International Style.
2003
Downtown, Los Angeles
The building opened to great public celebration and immediately became the
sprawling city's landmark building.
Its acoustics and aesthetics were publically acclaimed than the previous concert
hall The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
The concave exterior walls built of stainless steel, created an issue of heating
and glare.
The surrounding residences as well as pedestrian pathways got heated up, way
more than usual and the glare increased the probability of accidents in the surrounding roadways.
The panels were dulled by lightly sanding them, to eliminate unwanted glare.
waste structural resources by creating functionless forms. do not seem to belong in their surroundings. are apparently designed without accounting for the local climate.
INSPITE OF ALL THE CRITICISM
DECONTRUCTIVISM
HE HAS OVER 70 WORLD FAMOUS BUILDING TO HIS NAME IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES ALL AROUND THE GLOBE
AND HE IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON 2 SIMULTANEOUS PROJECTS IN