Friday, March 23, 2018

Artist of the day, March 23: Frank Gehry, Canadian-born American architect

Frank Owen Gehry, (born Frank Owen Goldberg; 1929) is a Canadian-born American architect,

A number of his buildings, including his private residence, have become world-renowned attractions. His works are cited as being among the most important works of contemporary architecture in the 2010 World Architecture Survey, which led Vanity Fair to label him as "the most important architect of our age".

Gehry's best-known works include the titanium-clad Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles; Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, France; MIT Ray and Maria Stata Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts; The Vontz Center for Molecular Studies on the University of Cincinnati campus; Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle; Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis; Dancing House in Prague; the Vitra Design Museum and the MARTa Herford museum in Germany.

In addition to architecture, Gehry has made a line of furniture, jewelry for Tiffany & Co., various household items, sculptures, and even a glass bottle for Wyborowa Vodka. His first line of furniture, produced from 1969 to 1973, was called "Easy Edges", constructed out of cardboard. Another line of furniture released in the spring of 1992 is "Bentwood Furniture". Each piece is named after a different hockey term.

In many of his designs, Gehry is inspired by fish. "It was by accident I got into the fish image", claimed Gehry. One thing that sparked his interest in fish was the fact that his colleagues were recreating Greek temples. As a result of his fascination, the first Fish Lamps were fabricated between 1984 and 1986. They employed wire armatures molded into fish shapes, onto which shards of plastic laminate ColorCore are individually glued. Since the creation of the first lamp in 1984, the fish has become a recurrent motif in Gehry's work, most notably in the Fish Sculpture at the Glass Fish for the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.

Having grown up in Canada, Gehry is an avid fan of ice hockey. He began a hockey league in his office, FOG (which stands for Frank Owen Gehry), though he no longer plays with them. In 2004, he designed the trophy for the World Cup of Hockey. Gehry holds dual citizenship in Canada and the United States.

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 Mr Frank Gehry

Models for Jay Pritzker Pavilion-Chicago

 8 Spruce Street (Beekman Tower), New York.

 8 Spruce Street (Beekman Tower), New York.

Art Gallery of Alberta.

Bard College New York

BP Pedestrian Bridge, Millennium Park, Chicago

Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Las Vegas, Nevada

Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Las Vegas, Nevada

A DZ Bank Building (Atrium), Berlin, Germany

Fishdance Restaurant in Kobe

Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris

Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris

Golden Fish Sculpture, Barcelona

A Grand Avenue Project- Los Angeles

Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao

Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao

Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao

Hotel Marqués de Riscal

Hotel Marqués de Riscal

Hotel Marqués de Riscal

Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health | Cleveland Clinic

Marqués de Riscal Winery, Rioja, Spain

 Media Harbour, Düsseldorf,

 Media Harbour, Düsseldorf,

MIT's Strata Center, Boston

A Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle

A Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle

A Norton House California

Novartis campus, Basel

Ray Maria Stata Center-MIT campus

Ray Maria Stata Center-MIT campus

A The Dancing House, Prague

A The ILAC Building, NYC

The Peter B. Lewis Building, Cleveland

The Shed Arts Center, NYC

The Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve, Cleveland, Ohio

University of technology, Sydney

Vitra Design Museum

Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles

Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles

Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland

Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis

Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis

Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis

Collection, Heller

Collection, Heller

4 pc Collection, Heller



bar stools



Cardboard Wiggle chair and ottomanstool

Cardboard Wiggle chair

Cardboard ottomanstool















Power play Lounge Chair for Knoll


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