Frank Gehry LFE AND PROJECTS Life Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry LİFE AND PROJECTS

Life; • Frank Gehry was born in Toronto in February 1929. World renowned designer and architect. His real name is Ephraim Goldberg. He has been living in Los Angeles, California since 1947. The architectural area Deconstructivism is among the leading practitioners and one of the most important architects living with them. The work of Frank Gehry is regarded as an example of combining design with art.

• He has been living in Los Angeles, California since 1947. The architectural area Deconstructivism is among the leading practitioners and one of the most important architects living with them. The work of Frank Gehry is regarded as an example of combining design with art.

• He attended the University of Southern California between 1949 1951 and Harvard University between 1956 and 1957. In 1962 he founded his own branch "Frank Gehry & Assoc. " She has been a lecturer at various universities in America.

• Frank Gehry received the Pritzker architecture prize with the shopping center Santa Monica Place in the US in 1989 and the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 1999.

Education; • In 1947, his family immigrated to the United States settling in California. Gehry got a job driving a delivery truck, and studied at Los Angeles City College, eventually to graduate from the University of Southern California's School of Architecture. During that time, he became a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi. According to Gehry, "I was a truck driver in L. A. , going to City College, and I tried radio announcing, which I wasn't very good at. I tried chemical engineering, which I wasn't very good at and didn't like, and then I remembered.

Academia; • In January 2011, Gehry joined the University of Southern California (USC) faculty, as the Judge Widney Professor of Architecture. He has since continued in this role at his alma mater. In addition to his position at USC, Gehry has held teaching positions at Harvard University, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Toronto, Columbia University, the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and at Yale University where he is still teaching as of 2017.

Career; • The 1991 Venice, California, complex that Gehry built for advertising agency Chiat/Day commonly goes by the nickname Binoculars Building, thanks to the enormous pair of binoculars that mark the entrance to a parking garage—a collaboration between Gehry and artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. Office structures resembling a ship’s prow and tree trunks flank the sculpture, which now welcomes 500 Google employees to work every day.

Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany • Since the early 1980 s, furniture manufacturer Vitra has enlisted up and coming architects to create buildings for its campus in Weil am Rhein. Among them is Gehry's Vitra Design Museum, which opened in 1989. For the 8, 000 square foot venue, Gehry piled simple geometric forms against a cubic volume, unifying them all with white plaster surfaces and zinc roofing.

Gehry House, Santa Monica, California • Gehry’s first significant brush with fame came with the 1978 construction of a Santa Monica residence he designed for himself and his family. The project wrapped an existing bungalow in angular volumes clad in a riot of everyday suburban materials like plywood and chain link. As opinionated as it was sculptural, the house earned both cheers and jeers in short order. In 2012 it won the American Institute of Architects’ prestigious Twenty Five Year Award.

Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California • The 1978 commission to expand Loyola Law School would propel Gehry into institutional work. He reimagined Loyola’s downtown Los Angeles site as a neotraditional campus, arranging a stylistically diverse set of buildings and surrounding them with a knoll like landscape. During initial design work, a strategy was developed to allow the expansion of the campus in several phases, cor responding to the priorities of the school. The last phase of the design was completed in 2003.

Olympic Fish Pavilion, Barcelona, Spain • The monumental golden steel mesh fish sculpture Gehry created for the 1992 Olympic Village in Barcelona represented a technological breakthrough for the architect’s studio, which used three dimensional aeronautical design software to realize the concept.

Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota • Completed in 1993, the Weisman Art Museum is located on the University of Minnesota campus. Its western façade, featuring steel clad turrets and bays, peeks over the bluffs of the Mississippi River. Construction of a Gehry designed expansion concluded in 2011.

Dancing House, Prague, Czech Republic • The Prague offices of the Dutch insurance company Nationale Nederlanden is also known as Fred and Ginger, thanks to its signature pair of towers, which seem to resemble a couple dancing. The 1996 building, comprising a cinched volume of metal mesh and glass and a concrete cylinder, was a collaboration between Gehry and local architect Vlado Miluníc.

Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain • The Guggenheim’s satellite in Bilbao, Spain, multiplied the museum’s exhibition space in a mountain of stone, glass, and titanium that follows the contours of the Nervión river. Design and construction of the Guggenheim Bilbao went largely unnoticed in the press, so the building’s 1997 opening produced an explosion of publicity, securing Gehry’s place as a master among architects and jolting the Bilbao economy.

Davis Studio and Residence, Malibu, California • Frank Gehry completed this Malibu live/work residence for artist Ron Davis in 1968, six years after he launched his architecture practice in Los Angeles. While the Davis commission was not Gehry’s first project, it did presage his signature design vocabulary, thanks to a slanted roof that makes the trapezoidal house appear to torque. Today the place is home to actor Patrick Dempsey and his family. (See AD’s March 2014 cover story, "California Dreamy, "featuring the Dempseys’ house. )

DZ Bank Building, Berlin, Germany • In Berlin, local code prohibits any building from outshining Brandenburg Gate. Commissioned by Frankfurt based DZ Bank & Hines to design a branch across from the triumphal arch, Gehry created a sober limestone façade in response. A spectacular stainless steel conference room—whose shape Gehry has likened to a horse’s head—is tucked within the atrium of the now 14 year old office building.