FrankGehry (Xtradordinary Artists) by Valerie Bodden, FrankO. Gehry Library, 48 Pages, Published 2009 by Creative Education ISBN-13: 978-1-58341-662-4, ISBN: 1-58341-662-5
"Valerie Bodden, Frank O. Gehry. creating affordable housing for the poor, he
gave up that idea after discovering that soeial j housing programs in America had
more to do with polities than with architectural innovation. As he began to take on
projects from wealthy clients instead. Frank found that he enjoyed the freedom of
experimenting with new forms on their houses. One of the most successful of
these houses was the Norton Reside ..."
""gehry talks: architecture + process" With the completion of the celebrated Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, architect Frank O. Gehry has entered the pantheon of twentieth-century masters. In this wholly unique new book, a condensed edition of the original volume of the same name, Gehry himself offers extensive and illuminating commentary on various aspects of the processes involved in developing his revolutionary designs, including ..."
"311 p., f.to cm 28 x 22, numerose ill. colore e b/n., brossura illustrata, stato di conservazione buono: tracce d'umidità nelle prime pagine, saggio di Germano Celant"
"No building was more anticipated than Frank Gehry's stunning new museum in Bilbao, an industrial city in the Basque Country of northern Spain. Philip Johnson, the dean of American architects, declared it "the greatest building of our time," while Sverre Fehn, winner of the 1997 Pritzker Architecture Prize, called the building "fantastic." Gehry's use of nontraditional materials and his sensitivity to the environments of his buildings is ..."
"Arthur M. Sackler Gallery [Published date: 2007]. Soft cover, 263 pp. [From front flap] Joe Price purchased his first Japanese painting in the1950s, under the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright. Over the next five decades, he and his wife Etsuko would collect more than 200 masterpieces from the Edo period(1615-1868), a time when Japan had isolated itself from the rest of the world. Curiously, during that period of national seclusion, indep ..."
Bridges A History of the World's Most Famous and Important Spans by Dupre Judith, FrankO. Gehry, Judith Dupré, Alleycat Design Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 1997 by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-884822-75-9, ISBN: 1-884822-75-4
"In her follow-up to Skyscrapers, Judith Dupré has taken her initial concept and turned it on its side. Bridges, like its predecessor, is a large-format hardcover book that opens to an impressive span a yard across. The format lends itself well to the material, displaying the many exquisite panoramic shots of bridges in full splendor. The impressive black-and-white photographs convey the majesty, elegance, and beauty of these structures. ..."
"With the completion of the celebrated Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, architect Frank O. Gehry has entered the pantheon of twentieth-century masters. In this wholly unique new book, Gehry himself offers extensive and illuminating commentary on various aspects of the proceses involved in developing his revolutionary designs, including his influences, clients, use of materials, and new technologies. "Gehry Talks: Architecture + Proces ..."
FrankGehry(2nd Edition) The City and Music by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, FrankO. Gehry Hardcover, 148 Pages, Published 2001 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-23995-0, ISBN: 0-415-23995-8
"Frank Gehry: The City and Music is the result of a unique collaboration between the architect and leading critic Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe. It focuses on two projects, Gehry's unrealised proposal for the rehabilitation of Berlin's Museum Island and his soon to be completed Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, while discussing other projects such as the Pavilion for the Performing Arts in Concord, California, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, a ..."
"Gehry has instilled his buildings with a technical virtuosity that seems to have no limits and, combined with his extraordinary imagination, his skill has resulted in some of the world's most remarkable buildings and structures."
"Since the 1997 completion of what many consider his greatest achievement—the stunning Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain—Frank O. Gehry has soared to the forefront of contemporary American architecture. Long recognized by his peers for his innovative designs, Gehry now enjoys a new level of prominence in the popular imagination. This book, the catalogue of the first large-scale retrospective of Gehry’s work in 15 years, examines the arc ..."
"New Lower Price~This book, the catalogue to the first large-scale retrospective of Frank Gehry's work in 15 years, examines the Los Angeles-based architect's unique vision and audacious accomplishments. Frank Gehry, Architect presents nearly 40 of Gehry's most significant works, from his earliest residential projects, including the 1977-78 transformation of his own Santa Monica residence--in which he used chain-link fencing, asphalt flo ..."
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"The graceful curves of Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles are familiar to anyone interested in contemporary architecture or the work of this great master. They are also famous, if not infamous, to the ironworkers faced with the challenge of building them. With a building skin stretched tight and tolerances shaved to a thousandth of an inch, there was simply no room for typical industry standards. A new breed of ironwo ..."
FrankO. Gehry(1st Edition) Selected Works: 1969 to Today by FrankO. Gehry, Casey Mathewson Hardcover, 600 Pages, Published 2007 by Firefly Books ISBN-13: 978-1-55407-276-7, ISBN: 1-55407-276-X
" A stunning 600-page survey of an architectural genius' building designs. Frank 0. Gehry is one of the world's most innovative and acclaimed architects, with an active career spanning nearly four decades. His heart-stopping designs can be seen across the globe, and while the buildings' functions vary, all share Gehry's signature elements: ingenious manipulations of light, shadow and geometry. This exciting retrospective of Gehry' ..."
"This stunning, lavishly illustrated book chronicles the entire planning and construction process of the Frank Gehry-designed Ray and Maria Stata Center at MIT. Taking us from the historical background and architectural context at MIT through the interaction of the clients' needs and the architect's vision to the choice of building materials and construction methods, Buildin ..."
"Part of a series that aims to place buildings within their historical context, this text considers Gehry's Schnabel House; Israel's Lawson-Weston House; and Moss's Drager House. It includes specially produced technical drawings that explain how the buildings were detailed and put together. It considers how the houses are all key buildings in the development of a recognized style of California residential architecture and how the buildin ..."
"His celebrated Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao has ensured Frank Gehry a place in the pantheon of 20th-century masters. In this volume, Gehry himself offers illuminating commentaries on various aspects of the processes involved in developing his revolutionary designs, including his influences, clients, use of materials and new technologies. This is a document of a decade of Gehry's work, from 1988 to 1998, tracing his evolution from a south ..."
"This critique of Frank O. Gehry's architecture contains edited proceedings from the symposium of the same name held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in June 1994, where Gehry discussed his buildings, working methods and the contexts in which his buildings are placed. In addition, the book takes the Royal Academy debate a step further with commentaries by three architectural critics - Charles Jencks, Jeffrey Kipnis and Robert Maxwel ..."