Title & Author:

Building Compound Shapes / [presented by] Frank Gehry (Gehry Partners LLP).

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1997.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (32 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Barcelona Fish Sculpture In Olympic Village Shopping Area -- Fish Sketches -- Fish Lamp -- Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain: Sketch -- Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain: Model Of Building -- Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain: Interior, Model -- Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain: Roof Plan -- Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain: Interior, Model. Another Image -- Spiller Residence, Los Angeles: In Context -- Nationale-Nederlanden Building, Prague: View From River -- Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain: The Building Under Construction. Air View -- Cardboard Furniture: Four Pieces -- Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain: Titanium Cladding -- Nationale-Nederlanden Building, Prague: Mock-Up Of Detail -- Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain: Computer Drawing -- Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles: Model Of Building -- Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles: Interior, Model -- Der Neue Zollhof, Dusseldorf: The Three Buildings. Model -- Der Neue Zollhof, Dusseldorf: Computer Model -- Digitising Era: In Use.

Summary:

Since we last recorded Gehry in 1981 his architectural language has developed enormously. Charles Jencks calls him "the Picasso of architecture, picking up one new idea after another", while James Steel says "he is the lodestone which others use to navigate whether in similar or opposite directions... Sometime muse to successive generation of architects". Gehry relates his individual style to strong personal links with the American art world. He fights against symmetry and is the master of unfinished surfaces, colliding geometries and dislocated shapes. But he is a maker of spaces first, sculpture second. In his talk he states his delight in pursuing the idea of movement using inert materials to build compound shapes. Over the years he has learned how to perfect and, what is more, how to build them economically. It is a fascinating story.

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architectural design United States.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Design architectural États-Unis.
Architectural design.
Architecture, Modern.
United States.

Added entries:

Gehry, Frank O., 1929- narrator.