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  • Viewpoints

    Q&A: Fondation Louis Vuitton Artistic Director Suzanne Pagé on Frank Gehry's Genius

    … with architects and designers in the future? SP: Yes, there are plans for an outpost of the Fondation in Beijing this June. It will open with an exhibit of Frank Gehry’s work on the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. CS: What is it like to work in the Frank Gehry building? Is it …

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    Q&A: Paul Goldberger on Frank Gehry's Life and Work

    … feeding the hungry?” Well, perhaps so. But it’s not a comment that creates any meaningful discourse or yields depths of understanding in your art or in society. Art does not sustain people in the way food sustains people, but great architecture already sustains life’s deeper meaning. I think all Frank was trying …

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    Profiles

    Surveying L.A. Pomo: Frank Gehry

    … peel off from the pack. Apart from his Norton House of 1984, a self-referential jungle gym that incorporated bits of Laugier’s Primitive Hut and even Gehry’s own 1978 house, the architect went into something like self-imposed exile. Any lingering visual games were subsequently absorbed into Gehry’s increasingly idiosyncratic compositional language …

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    Rick Smith Joins Frank Gehry - 1991

    … the model builders—a series of printed sections cut vertically and horizontally through the 3-D image, which they used as templates for constructing buildable models of Gehry’s “dream images.” Gehry then reviewed it, made adjustments by hand, and returned the model to Smith, who input the changes and began the model-building process …

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    Projects

    Frank Gehry–Designed Restaurant Opens at Philadelphia Museum of Art

    … its stainless steel-clad open kitchen, a feature Lloyd believes adds to the intimacy of the restaurant, providing diners “a view on the excitement of the kitchen.” “The museum has such a great mission, serving a lot of people with a lot of different backgrounds, so we definitely wanted to make Stir friendly and …

  • Projects

    Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall to Be Projected With Digital “Machine Hallucinations”

    … is busy merging architecture and data in places like Dubai, China, Tokyo, and London. “I believe every architectural space should be a canvas,” he says. If he keeps this up, he might just get his wish. You might also like, "Frank Gehry Reveals Design for New L.A.-Area Youth Orchestra."

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    Frank Gehry Reveals Design for New L.A.-Area Youth Orchestra

    … join YOLA students, too. "It's not about making money," the architect said. "It's about giving them that experience." You might also like, "Frank Gehry’s Minimalist Set For a 1983 Dance Performance Is Restaged for the Final Time in New York." 

  • Projects

    Frank Gehry’s Minimalist Set For a 1983 Dance Performance Is Restaged for the Final Time in New York

    … cusp of fame. This is especially evident in Gehry’s handling of materials, ones that he featured prominently in his own residence, or other Postmodern-inflected buildings throughout Los Angeles. The architect would receive his Pritzker prize just six years later, the same year Adams won a Grammy Award. Childs went on to choreograph …

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    How Frank Gehry Plans to Remake the Philadelphia Museum of Art

    … existing building and used that as the roadmap to make interventions." While ambitious, the Core Project lays the foundation for an even bigger expansion, also designed by Frank Gehry. The Philadelphia Museum of Art plans to build an entire swathe of new galleries underneath the grand steps leading to the museum's East Entrance. If …

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    Frank Gehry: "There’s not Enough Humanity in Buildings"

    … calls for more architects invested in the relationship between the built environment and its occupants at the scale of the body. Not surprisingly, these qualities, not the internal disciplinary dialectics debated in the halls of academia, are what most find pleasurable in architecture. This civil conversation between the critic and the architect was an …