Architect reference: Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry  is a Canadian-American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles. Gehrys' career has spanned four decades and produced public and private buildings in America, Europe and Asia. 

At the end of the twentieth century, Gehry has become one of the most recognized and talked about architect in the world. He is among a few widely known architects whose projects bring architecture into the conversations of ordinary people. The century ended with the selection of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao (Spain), designed by Gehry as  the "Building of the Century".

Guggenheim in Bilbao

F. Gehry designed and directed all his projects himself whilst being undertaken by Gehry Partners which was founded in 1962 in Los Angeles.

Much of Gehry's work falls within the style of Deconstructivism for his ability to go beyond current modalities of structural definition by using common materials such as chain link fencing or corrugated metal siding as architectural elements.

Gehry's own Santa Monica residence is a commonly cited example of deconstructivist architecture, as it was so drastically divorced from its original context, by relocating many of the wall and by adding new ones in such a manner as to subvert its original spatial intention.

In 1989 Gehry's firm was responsible for the innovation in architectural software.

His company spun off another company called Gehry Technologies which developed digital

 projects and gave him  the freedom the create even more inovating spaces .

Gehry's House in Santa Monica

For him you have to see everything with new eyes to discover what is usual and how you can make it become extraordinary.

Gehry's style at times seems unfinished or even crude ,it combines his intrest in materiality and expressive forms.His buildings are usually composed of discrete volumes, shaped by curved roofs . Often in metal panels, stainless steel or titanium, as plating. The result is a collection of buildings that no longer resemble the historic architectural design. Some structures appear to defy the laws of gravity and question the human ability to form structures.

here are some of his characteristique projects :

Dancing House in Prague and Vitra Design Museum in Germany

Walt Disney Concert Central and The Gehry Tower in Hannover