FRANK GEHRY

MASTER ARCHITECT
BACKGROUND: EARLY DAYS
Frank Owen Goldberg
Hebrew name "Ephraim"
February 28, 1929
Toronto, Ontario
Polish Jews
Irwin
Thelma
Grandmother
Grandfather
BACKGROUND: ARCHITECTURE
1947 : moved to California
Truck driver
Los Angeles City College : Chemical Engineering
University of Southern Californias School of Architecture
Anita Snyder 1956 : Wife: change name to Frank Gehry
Cambridge : 1966 : Panamanian Berta Isabel Aguilera
City Planning: Harvard Graduate School of Design



FISH
"Grandmother and the trip to the market

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 are recreating Greek
temples. He said, "Three hundred million years before
man was fish....if you gotta go back, and you're
insecure about going forward...go back three hundred
million years ago. Why are you stopping at
the Greeks? So I started drawing fish in my
sketchbook, and then I started to realize that there
was something in it.

Consistency of Fish influences in his design

FURNITURE DESIGN
Easy Edges
Furniture by the slice
Outrageous Designs
Deconstructivism Post structuralism
The Gehry Residence
PHILOSOPHY
Every Building is by its very nature a sculpture. You cant
help it. Sculpture is a 3-dimensional object and so is a
building

I approach each building as a sculptural object, a
spatial container, a space with light and air, a response
to context and appropriateness of feeling and spirit to
this container. This sculpture, the user begins his
baggage, his program, and interacts with it to
accommodate his needs. If I cant do that Ive failed.
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM IN BILBAO
BACKGROUND
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Thomas Krens
Jogging inspiration
Geo-cultural Triangle : 452 000 sq.ft
Bellas Artes Museum, University, Opera House
LOCATION: BILBAO

GUGGENHEIM: OBJECTIVE
"The mission of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is to collect, conserve, and study modern and
contemporary art, to exhibit the art of our times from a variety of perspectives in the context of art
history, and to reach a broad and diverse audience."

CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT
Scribble
make volume models
details box
try again
until stop

EXTERIOR
South, stone right angles, windows aligned. Accdg. to city






North, water, fluid shapes, andulations
EXTERIOR: PUPPY AND TULIPS
EXTERIOR
Volume, sillouettes.
Material differs per shape
Limestone: Straight Edges
Cladding may be square or rectangular
Rounded Edges: titanium 24 k metal plates
Captures light. Dramatic sunset
Dead light for other metal

EXTERIOR
Cruise liner
metal flower
Fish without head and tail
STRUCTURAL
Aviation technology. Demystify the form, calculate



Metal girder each unique to program

LAYOUT
ELEVATIONS
ELEVATIONS

FLOOR PLAN
INTERIOR
Stairs down to entranceimmense lower than level of city
Atrium empty space hybrid area not inside and outside.. halfway house
Tightened bound twisted constrast
Photo inspiration glass scales, elevator prague moving fish

INTERIOR
Concentric features guggenheim new your flw
20 galleries, different worlds
Walkway, appreciate art walk on the city
Classical art = laid back architecture
Natural and artificial light

NEGATIVE
THE BILBAO EFFECT
Turn away from industrial period. Must be a monument A civic pride

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