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 Gehrys 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 Nortons 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 supported
by 99 concrete panels, 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.
Its 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 panels in
2005 was conducted.
The panels 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 accounting 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
