Building art : the life and work of Frank Gehry / Paul Goldberger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldberger, Paul, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gehry, Frank O., 1929-2025.

Gehry, Frank O.

Gehry, Frank O., 1929-.

Architects--United States--Biography.

Architects.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 513 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Llife and work of Frank Gehry

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.

Summary:

"From one of our foremost architectural writers: an engaging, brilliant exploration of the life and work of the most famous architect of our time, and one of the few architects ever to be widely admired by both critics and the general public.This first full-fledged critical biography of Frank Gehry presents and evaluates the work of a man whom fifty architects, critics, and historians assembled by Vanity Fair designated "the most important architect in the world." It discusses at length his major buildings: from his own house--an "exploded" Dutch Colonial in Santa Monica--to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, which has almost single-handedly transformed contemporary architecture. It considers the work in light of Gehry's personal life: the influence of his immigrant grandparents, his two marriages, his close relationships to an unusual circle of celebrated clients and friends, his longtime therapist. It analyzes his carefully created "aw, shucks" persona and the intense ambition it masks; examines Gehry's anxieties about fame and how his "outsider" status as a Los Angeles architect allowed him to experiment in useful ways; and finally discusses how he thinks about and employs technology to change not just the way a building can look but the way architecture itself is practiced"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Night of the supermoon

Canada

To life in the sun

Becoming an architect

Dealing with authority

Discovering Europe

Restart in Los Angeles

Independence

Easing the edges

A house in Santa Monica

Fish and other shapes

Onto the world stage

Walt Disney Concert Hall : first movement

The Guggenheim and Bilbao

Walt Disney Concert Hall : second movement

New York : trials and triumps

Frank at eighty

The legacy of technology

From Dwight Eisenhower to Louis Vuitton

An archive and a legacy

In Paris, looking back and looking forward.

New York : trials and triumphs

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-488) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780307701534

0307701530

OCLC:

913514521

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