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Counter Statements / [presented by] Frank Gehry (Gehry Partners LLP).

Pidgeon Digital Available online

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Format:
Sound recording
Contributor:
Gehry, Frank O., 1929-2025, narrator.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Functionalism (Architecture).
Architectural design--California.
Architectural design.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 audio file (30 minutes)).
Place of Publication:
London, England: Pidgeon Digital, 1981.
Summary:
Frank Gehry has lived in California since 1947, and practises and teaches architecture in Los Angeles. He likes to be involved with designing the less expensive kind of American housing, particularly the "tract" house, i.e. "the two car single family plus swimming pool on its own 50 x 150 foot lot". He approaches each work as a sculptural object, seeking to develop one aesthetic for the shell (or one building) and then making a counter-statement with another personal aesthetic - in other words, two personal styles in one building project. But the buildings must always fit into their neighbourhood. Recently he has also been concerned with the total physical separation of the various rooms or areas of a building. All the posturing and classification that's going on now in architecture - Post Modern, Late Modern, etc. - infuriates him. "You can make gestures with anything" he says, and suits his work to his words.
Contents:
Frank Gehry
Haybarn, Orange County, California
Davis House, Malibu, California
Corrugated Cardboard Research
Gemini Building, Los Angeles
Gehry Residence, Los Angeles
Wagner House Project, Malibu, California
Arts Park Project For San Fernando Valley. With Laurence Halprin
Cabrillo Marine Biology Museum, San Pedro, California
Santa Monica Place Parking Garage, Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica Place Shopping Mall
Spiller Residence, Venice, Los Angeles
Benson Residence, Los Angeles
Artists' Houses, Venice, Los Angeles
Loyola Law School; Downtown Los Angeles
Whitney Residence, Santa Monica Canyon
Smith Residence, Los Angeles
Bridge Between World Trade Center & Chrysler Building, New York. Fantasy By Gehry With Sculptor Richard Serra.
Notes:
Title from publisher's website (viewed April 22, 2021).
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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