Architecture Book Decription
About The Architect
Frank Owen Gehry
, (born FrankOwen Goldberg; February 28, 1929) is a Canadian-American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles, California.
About The Architect
Frank Owen Gehry
, (born FrankOwen Goldberg; February 28, 1929) is a Canadian-American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles, California.
His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. His works are often cited as being among the most important works of contemporary architecture in the 2010 World Architecture Survey, which led Vanity Fair to label him as "the most important architect of our age". ~wiki
Gehry's best-known works include the titanium-covered Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
, Spain; MIT Stata Center
in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Walt Disney Concert Hall
in downtown Los Angeles; Experience Music Project in Seattle; Weisman Art Museum
in Minneapolis; Dancing House in Prague; the Vitra Design Museum
and MARTa Museum in Germany; and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.
Gehry's best-known works include the titanium-covered Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
, Spain; MIT Stata Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles; Experience Music Project in Seattle; Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis; Dancing House in Prague; the Vitra Design Museum and MARTa Museum in Germany; and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. But it was his private residence in Santa Monica, California, which jump-started his career, lifting it from the status of "paper architecture" – a phenomenon that many famous architects have experienced in their formative decades through experimentation almost exclusively on paper before receiving their first major commission in later years. ~wiki
Product Details
- Hardcover: 606 pages
- Publisher: El Croquis; 1 edition (November 2, 2006)
- Language: English, Spanish
- ISBN-10: 8488386362
- ISBN-13: 978-8488386366
- Product Dimensions: 13.4 x 9.4 x 1.7 inches
