Frank O. Gehry : The Complete Works
by Francesco Dal Co, et al
Ever since his wildly dramatic Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain,
opened in 1997, Frank Gehry has been widely and justifiably considered
the leading architect of our time. Although this ascension occurred seemingly
overnight, it actually took more than half a century, counting architecture
school and work in eight other offices before he opened his own firm in
1962. Since then, Gehry's designs have become increasingly freer and more
inventive. He first explored existing design approaches such as Frank Lloyd
Wright's, Southern California vernacular, minimalist modernism, and Miesian
structuralism before blazing his own trail. This included corrugated cardboard
furniture, chain-link fencing, unfinished metal siding, exposed wood studs,
and other "cheapskate" materials; skewed geometries; and a recurring preoccupation
with fishlike building forms. He learned to fragment buildings into discrete
components (often making each room a structure unto itself), experiment
with color, create forced perspectives, and, above all, bring natural light
indoors masterfully. His recent designs tend to be baroque and romantic
in ways never before seen, often resembling sails or abstracted flowers.
Gehry's architecture is an art that involves great risk taking, and while
not every design succeeds fully, his courage is exemplary and his batting
average is surprisingly high.
For readers who truly want to know about Gehry, The Complete Works
is indispensable. It documents 250 works, even early ones that other architects
might conveniently omit, and the material is well illustrated on 614 oversized
pages. Insightful essays by two eminent architectural scholars set the
stage for this massive and unrivaled traversal of Gehry's designs. --John
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