Title & Author:

Counter Statements / [presented by] Frank Gehry (Gehry Partners LLP).

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1981.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (30 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Frank Gehry -- Haybarn, Orange County, California -- Davis House, Malibu, California -- Corrugated Cardboard Research -- Gemini Building, Los Angeles -- Gehry Residence, Los Angeles -- Gemini Building, Los Angeles -- Wagner House Project, Malibu, California -- Arts Park Project For San Fernando Valley. With Laurence Halprin -- Cabrillo Marine Biology Museum, San Pedro, California -- Santa Monica Place Parking Garage, Santa Monica, California -- Santa Monica Place Shopping Mall -- Spiller Residence, Venice, Los Angeles -- Benson Residence, Los Angeles -- Artists' Houses, Venice, Los Angeles -- Loyola Law School; Downtown Los Angeles -- Whitney Residence, Santa Monica Canyon -- Smith Residence, Los Angeles -- Bridge Between World Trade Center & Chrysler Building, New York. Fantasy By Gehry With Sculptor Richard Serra.

Summary:

Frank Gehry has lived in California since 1947, and practises and teaches architecture in Los Angeles. He likes to be involved with designing the less expensive kind of American housing, particularly the "tract" house, i.e. "the two car single family plus swimming pool on its own 50 x 150 foot lot". He approaches each work as a sculptural object, seeking to develop one aesthetic for the shell (or one building) and then making a counter-statement with another personal aesthetic - in other words, two personal styles in one building project. But the buildings must always fit into their neighbourhood. Recently he has also been concerned with the total physical separation of the various rooms or areas of a building. All the posturing and classification that's going on now in architecture - Post Modern, Late Modern, etc. - infuriates him. "You can make gestures with anything" he says, and suits his work to his words.

Subject:

Functionalism (Architecture)
Architectural design California.
Fonctionnalisme (Architecture)
Design architectural Californie.
functionalism.
Architectural design.
California.

Added entries:

Gehry, Frank O., 1929- narrator.