JAGANNATH UNIVERSITY

SUBJECT – HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE

TOPIC – FRANK GEHRY

SUBMITTED TO – AR MANISH
SUBMITTED BY – LALIMA GUPTA
 INTRODUCTION

• Gehry was born frank owen goldberg on february 28, 1929, in toronto,
ontario.

• He was a truck driver in l.A., Going to city college, and he tried radio
announcing, which he wasn't very good at.

•During that time, he became a member of alpha epsilon pi

•He tried chemical engineering, which he wasn't very good at

•Gehry graduated at the top of his class with a bachelor of architecture degree
from the university of southern california's school of architecture in 1954.
In 1952 he married anita snyder, and in
1956 he changed his name to frank o.
Gehry at her suggestion.

•He spent time away from the field of

architecture in numerous

•In 2004, he designed the trophy for the

world cup of hockey. Hockey world cup
trophy

•He would spend time drawing with his

father and his mother introduced him to the
world of art. "So the creative genes were
there“
IDEOLOGY
Although frank gehry does not personally associate with the movement, critics
primarily consider his design philosophy to be deconstructivism, an approach
characterized by fragmentation and distortions of traditional structure, informed by
his belief that all artists should be true to themselves.

• Modernist architecture reflects contemporary philosophies regarding social

harmony and machine-like organization.

• Deconstructivism is thus called as it attempts to destabilize modernist thinking by

breaking up design into highly stylized, individual parts.
WORKS
THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
The guggenheim museum in balboa, spain, gehry’s most iconic
work, features an exterior of titanium, glass and limestone that is
both rectangular and traditional and also dramatically curved
and folded.

Gehry’s architecture has undergone a marked evolution from the

plywood and corrugated-metal vernacular of his early works to
the distorted but pristine concrete of his later works.

However, the works retain a deconstructed aesthetic that fits well

with the increasingly disjointed culture to which they belong.
 WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL, LOS ANGELES,
CALIFORNIA

Gehry was shortlisted to devise a new

home for the Los Angeles Philharmonic in
1988; the project, the Walt Disney Concert
Hall, finally opened in 2003.

Today critics and the public agree that the

iconic building was worth the wait.
Reflecting Gehry’s longtime passion for
sailing, the structure’s exterior features
expanses of stainless steel that billow
above Grand Avenue, while inside,
similarly shaped panels of Douglas fir line
the auditorium.