FRANK GEHRY AS A DECONSTRUCTIVIST

The architecture of Frank Gehry, is closely related

to that of the city of Los Angeles.

He escapes the monumental, ignored the topological

criteria, and bears with the mark, the stigma of the

temporary and the ephemeral.

He will respect a way of doing things but to him

environmental pre-existence does not count.

Some of his early works started by studying

different architectures in Los Angeles.

His first work was the house of the artist Ron Davis which was

built in 1972.

He took the idea of how Davis draws his paintings and came up with

something similar for the drawings of the house of Davis.

Gehry wanted to be close to the freedom of an artist so he always

discovered the materials that he wanted to use for building house

instead of just focusing on the drawings of the building.

Santa monica house

the turning point of his career was the Santa Monica Place, which

caused a huge shift in Gehry’s work.

In the Santa Monica Place of 1972-1980, he changes his way of

constructing the outside before the

inside.

In this project, he designs the inside

of the shopping mall completely,

according to the logic that was

dictated by the program.

He later constructed the outside of

the building but not as an

architectural form or gesture, but as

a huge sign saying “Santa Monica

Place.”this was the change in Gehry’s

work.

His work had a complete change at that point because of instead

of working from the outside in, he begins to work from the inside

out.

The lewis building

The full transformation of Gehry's work is clearly seen in the

Lewis building. The Lewis building was mainly done on the computer

using two different architects

each with their own opinion.

It is necessary to distinguish

Lynn’s idea of the digital

versus that of Gehry and also

between the conceptual in

Lynn and the phenomenal in

Gehry.

FRANK GEHRY AS A DECONSTRUCTIVIST

The invocation of the digital part is important for the

understanding of the evolution of the Lewis Building.

This building went through a huge evolution from 1997 up until

2000.

The final model was done in 2000, where there was a little bit of

an argument over whether they should go with the digital or the

analogue.

The final product showed many traces that were taken from all of

Gehry's previous projects that were discussed earlier on.

Significant Buildings:

1967: Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, Maryland (first

Gehry structure reviewed by The New York Times)

1978: Gehry House (Gehry's private home), Santa Monica CA

1993: Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

1994: American Center, Paris, France (first building in Paris)

1997: Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain

2000: The Experience Music Project (EMP), Seattle, Washington

2001: Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College,

Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

2003: Maggie's Centre, Dundee, Scotland

2004: MIT Stata Complex, Cambridge MA

1989-2004: Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles CA

2004: Jay Pritzker Music Pavillion, Chicago, Illinois

2005: 'MARTa' Museum, Herford, Germany

2007: IAC Building, New York City

2008: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, Kensington Gardens, London,

UK

2011: New York By Gehry, New York City

2014: Biomuseo, Museum of Biodiversity, Panama City, Panama

2014: Louis Vuitton Foundation Museum, Paris, France

2015: Dr Chau Chak Wing Building, University of Technology

Sydney (UTS), Gehry's first building in Australia

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FRANK GEHRY AS A DECONSTRUCTIVIST