Luis Fernández-Galiano   Gehry’s best building is a chair. Built with interwoven laminated wood, its flexible, resistent warp gives under the weight of the body just like a cosy, domestic basket. In the workshop of his studio, the architect tries each prototype with the spar

Sylvia Lavin   Frank Owen Gehry began his professional practice as an independent architect in 1962, but it was in 1978, with the completion of his striking private home in Santa Monica, California, that his work began to occupy a central position in contemporary a

Rafael Moneo   It is difficult to talk about Frank Gehry without immediately mentioning his city, Los Angeles. In the background of Gehry's architecture is his response to the great Californian city, the desire to survive in that amazing maelstrom: an architect can

Kurt W. Forster   The pieces and parts of architecture have been compared to the human body and its limbs at least since classical antiquity. When we speak of a lintel supported by straight or atlant feet, or when we think of a beam supported and braced with arms, we

Frank Gehry   United States   As so often in twentieth-century architecture, a small domestic exercise - a little house for guests - ends up being a splendid example. An extension for children and grandchildren, a doll's house, added to an exact rectangle: Philip Johnson's origin

Frank Gehry   United States   The principle of disorder or, if you will, of fragmentary order that Frank Gehry uses as a characteristic feature has here an application in the suburban Santa Monica: a scattered neighborhood, concrete and asphalt, and a commercial and cultural prog

Frank Gehry   United States   The large dimensions give the peculiar character of this work within the overall production of Frank Gehry's workshop. This is a huge building for the headquarters of the Herman Miller furniture company: an operations center for the entire western Un

Frank Gehry   United States   The world of millionaire homes in Los Angeles defines without a doubt what in our country is a great residence. To get an idea there is nothing better than the films of Blake Edwards. In one of them, Jack Lemmon plays an architect obsessed with Frank

Frank Gehry   United States   Perhaps because of his connections with the art world, his collaborations with Claes Oldenburg -that sculptor of great everyday objects as buildings-, or his admiration for the old master builders, Frank Gehry seems to keep alive the feeling that arc

Frank Gehry   Germany   Frank Gehry will also have his museum on the German Rhine, like his colleagues Meier, Stirling and Hollein. The Vitra museum is the product of his relationship with furniture designers and builders, and also of his contacts with that pop art whose vi

Frank Gehry   United States   It is surprising to see the broad-mindedness of the commission that is preserving the character of this former industrial warehouse in Boston's Back Bay area. The architect, in fact, acted as a prudent restorer of the decrepit facades and, at the sam

Frank Gehry   United States   All architects who consider themselves famous yearn for the great commission: a skyscraper. It is as if the consecration of a professional has its maximum recognition in the height of the commission, making the physical and moral connotations of the

Frank Gehry   United States   A university building on the banks of the Iowa River, dedicated to laser beam research: such is the project that raises questions about Frank Gehry's manner. It is a medium-sized building for functional and institutional use. An exercise that represe

Frank Gehry   United States   Chiat / Day is an advertising company that has produced some of the best known television commercials. The fluid collaboration with Gehry has allowed the architect to realize some of his experiments in collaboration with artists Claes Oldenburg and C

Frank Gehry   France   The new headquarters of the North American Center of Paris will be built in Bercy, east of the French capital. A glance at the successive models (which start with raw wood and end in a disturbing golan-like décor), a review of plans and sections, and

Frank Gehry   Switzerland   In addition to the design museum, located on the outskirts of Basel but on German territory, Frank Gehry is going to build a new administration building for the same firm on the site of the Vitra factory in the city itself. The tone of the project co

Frank Gehry   United States   In December 1988, Frank Gehry won in a restricted competition, against the more monumental projects of Bohm, Stirling and Hollein, the project to provide Los Angeles with a suitable concert hall. The architect thus consecrates his ties with his homel

Frank Gehry   France   There is a certain parallel between this Disneyland - born in California and traveling further and further east to conquer Europe - and the Los Angeles-based architect who has just completed two important cultural embassies in Paris: the North Americ