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A PRESENTATION ON

ARCHITECT

FRANK O’ GEHRY DE-CONSTRUCTIVISM RAGHAV HANS ROHIT GUPTA POOJA TRIPATHI

CHANIA BHATIA ANIRUDH

HISTORY

• Frank Owen Gehry was born in 1929 in Canada.

• He was a creative child and his interest of architecture developed from playing with scraps of wood and other off-cuts.

• He is now working and living in Los Angeles as a world-renowned architect.

GEHRY'S SKETCHES • A Gehry building begins with a sketch, and Gehry's sketches are distinctive. • They're characterized by a sense of off-hand improvisation, of intuitive spontaneity.

• The fine line is invariably fluid, impulsive. • The drawings convey no architectural mass or weight, only loose directions and shifting spatial relationships.

THE GEHRY RESIDENCE • The Gehry Residence is Frank Gehry's own house, an extension, built around an existing house.

• It makes use of unconventional materials, such as chain link fences, corrugated steel, metal, plywood, chain link fencing, and wood framing.

• In 1978, he chose to wrap the outside of the house with a new exterior while still leaving the old exterior visible.

• All facades are wedged in titled glass cubes except the rear and south view.

• It is sometimes considered one of the earliest deconstructivist buildings.

THE NORTON HOUSE

1984 Venice, California • Designed in 1984 for artist Lynn Norton and writer William Norton, Frank Gehry’s Norton House is known for its eccentric form and different materiality.

• Gehry continued his exploration of creating architecture with everyday materials, low costs, and sculptural forms.

• Building is a group of offset boxes connected by interior and exterior staircases, each with a deck area above.

• The ground floor is subtly set back from the street wall. The second floor contains the main living spaces and is set farther back in an effort to maintain privacy.

• The most notable form of the building, is the studio: a box perched on a pillar towards the front of the main terrace, accessible only by an exterior stairway.

• The studio faces the ocean and fashions a large panoramic window at its front.

• Wooden shutters and timber pieces that rest geometrically on top of it contribute to its resemblance of a lifeguard station, a reference applicable to William Norton’s youth as a lifeguard.

• The house achieves its coherence through fragmentation, there is no singular detail to the project, rather all details compile to exhibit the volume.

OLYMPIC FISH

1992 Barcelona, Spain

• The piece sits in the Port Olympic at the base of a large skyscraper, the Hotel Arts, one of the tallest buildings in the city.

• Ar. Frank Gehry was commissioned to build the piece for the 1992 Summer Olympics, which were held in Barcelona and brought the city to the attention of the world.

• It faces the sea and measures 35 by 54 meters (about 114 by 177 feet).

• It is made of stone, steel, and glass. • Its copper-coloured shiny metal plates sparkle in the sunshine and make the sculpture a real eye catcher.

• The sculpture can be seen from several of Barcelona's beaches.

DANCING HOUSE

1996 Prague, Czech Republic

• The Dancing House was designed by Ar. Vlado Milunid and Ar. Frank Gehry on a riverfront plot.

• The very non-traditional design was controversial at the time because the house stands out among the Baroque, Gothic and Art Nouveau buildings for which Prague is famous.

• The unorthodox shape is ed by 99 concrete s, each a different shape and dimension.

• On the top of the building is a large twisted structure of metal nicknamed Medusa.

• Materials such as concrete, metal and glass has been used in abundance.

• Each floor has a distinctive plan. But the building follows the basic criteria of a uniform care.

• The mass appears to be a dancing couple.

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM

1997 Bilbao, Spain

•The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art, designed by Frank Gehry, located in Bilbao , Basque Country ,Spain.

• The curves on the exterior of the building were intended to appear random. • The randomness of the curves are designed to catch the light. • The interior is designed around a large, light-filled atrium with views of Bilbao's beauty and the surrounding hills of the Basque country.

•The atrium, which Gehry nicknamed ’The Flower’ because of its shape, serves as the organizing center of the museum.

• Increasingly eccentric shapes and sweeping irregular curves from this project contradicted the severely rectilinear International Style.

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL

2003 Downtown, Los Angeles

• The building opened to great public celebration and immediately became the sprawling city's landmark building.

• It’s acoustics and aesthetics were publically acclaimed than the previous concert hall – The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

• The concave exterior walls built of stainless steel, created an issue of heating and glare.

• The surrounding residences as well as pedestrian pathways got heated up, way more than usual and the glare increased the probability of accidents in the surrounding roadways.

• A computer analysis of the building's surfaces identifying the offending s in 2005 was conducted.

• The s were dulled by lightly sanding them, to eliminate unwanted glare.

Criticism of his work includes complaints that his buildings:

• waste structural resources by creating functionless forms. • do not seem to belong in their surroundings. • are apparently designed without ing for the local climate. INSPITE OF ALL THE CRITICISM

FRANK OWEN GEHRY IS THE CREATOR AND FOUNDER OF THE TERM

DECONTRUCTIVISM HE HAS OVER 70 WORLD FAMOUS BUILDING TO HIS NAME IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES ALL AROUND THE GLOBE AND HE IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON 2 SIMULTANEOUS PROJECTS IN

LOUISIANA AND CHINA