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Sunday, October 18, 2015

1A: Frank Gehry, architect (1929--)

***ENGLISH 1A STUDENTS***
***Some of the best articles and videos are marked with***
***My suggestion: print some articles and bring to the museum and class***


Gehry's residence in Santa Monica, above.
***Read about it and see pictures of it at this page.***
***Video: about his residence. Follow this link if video does not play and to access (CC)***
***Video: Gehry on his creative influences (CC)***
***Video: Gehry says, Be Yourself: His Advice to Students (CC)***

Frank Gehry. photograph c. 2006
Links to news, videos, and biographical entries on Gehry
***PBS American Masters page "Sketches of Gehry"***
***The Pritzker Architect Prize (awarded to Gehry in 1989)***
***Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao***
***Video: Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao designed by Gehry (CC)***
***ArchDaily on Disney Hall can be found here.***
***Encyclopedia of World Biography (profile of Gehry)***
Video: BBC Documentary 2015 Imagine: Frank Gehry (with subtitles)
Great Buildings Online
Photographs of legendary Gehry buildings
List of Gehry works at Wikipedia
"Architecture in the Age of Gehry," Vanity Fair, August 2010
"Frank Gehry, Inventing the Future," a Q &A with Patt Morrison
of the Los Angeles Times, November 18, 2014
"Frank Gehry on Chris Burden: 'Gift of the Gods,' Plus art l:eft Unfinished" by Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, May 2015. Burden's work is represented with three major pieces at LACMA: "Urban Light," "Metropolis II," and "Ode to Santos Dumant."
by Mike Boehm, Los Angeles Times,  May 21, 2015
Video: TED Talks with Gehry
Video: Ted Talk with Gehry: "My Days as a Young Rebel (1990)" (subtitled)
Video: Ted Talk with Gehry: "A Master Architect Asks, Now What? (2002) (subtitled)"
Video: Netropolitan Artsconversations: Interview with Frank Gehry (closed captioned)
Want to work at Gehry Partners, LLP? See this page.


Gehry Partners, LLP. The office appears above.
List of works by Gehry at Wikipedia

***Video: an excerpt from from Sidney Pollack documentary 
on Gehry and Disney Hall (CC)***
Video: ***Tour, above, of Disney Hall (CC). Try this link if above video broken.***
 Video: ***Disney Hall interior view (CC). ***


***Deborah Borda, L.A. Philharmonic president and ceo, talks with Frank Gehry on Walt Disney Concert Hall (CC)***
Follow this link if video does not play



 ***In the Eye of Hurricane Mama - Inside the Music (CC)***
Follow this link if video does not play  

Disney Hall under construction in downtown Los Angeles.
It opened in 2003.


Disney Hall, interior, with view of stage and pipe organs. Tours of Disney Hall are given
 throughout the week. For information about tours see this page. Disney Hall offers performance tickets at a discount.  See this page for ticket details.


Disney Hall in downtown Los Angeles, with an exterior view from Grand Avenue.
The Music Center's Dorothy Chandler Pavilion appears to the right.

General Information about Disney Hall: Tours of Disney Hall are given throughout the week. For information about tours see this page. Disney Hall offers performance tickets at a discount.  See this page for ticket details.  Los Angeles Philharmonic's Walt Disney Concert Hall page includes articles, photographs and video.
***Read this page on Disney Hall and watch video on this page.  (CC)***

 ***From The New York Times, RECOMMENDED ARTICLES
TO READ, PRINT AND BRING TO CLASS ***
***"Hollywood Ending For Music Palace; 
Gehry's Hall to Open (Cue Soaring Strings)"***
***"ARCHITECTURE REVIEW; A Moon Palace for the Hollywood Dream"***

 The Los Angeles Times published "Walt Disney Concert Hall at 10," September 13, 2013
Read the articles marked with ***.
 RECOMMENDED: Print and bring to class those marked***.
***"Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall is inextricably of L.A."***
***"Disney Hall: Inside and out" ***
 ***A timeline for the hall's design and construction. See it here.***
***"Evolution of Disney Hall in Pictures"***
***"For architect Frank Gehry, Disney Hall is 'my home'" ***
***"Cleaners Make Walt Disney Concert Hall's Curves Sparkle" ***
***"Disney Hall's Architecture, not its Music, Lures Many"  ***
***Watch the Disney Hall Virtual Tour, parts 1-5 (CC)***

Wikipedia profile of Walt Disney Concert Hall.

***but Secrecy Troubles Some" by Peter Jamison, Martha Groves and Dan Weikel, ***
***Los Angeles Times, August 7, 2015***

***by Christopher Hawthorne, Los Angeles Times, August 9, 2015***
"Frank Gehry Draws Ire for Joining Los Angeles River Restoration Project"
by Adam Nagourney, The New York Times, September 23, 2015

***"Watts made its mark on Frank Gehry,***
*** now the architect is returning the favor"***
Los Angeles Times, September 12, 2015


Facebook’s new headquarters, Menlo Park, CA, Spring 2015, designed by Gehry.
Photo: Christophe Wu/Facebook. More photographs at linked reviews, below.


Time, March 19, 2014.

***Look at some photographs of the Facebook HQ here.***
And there is this video and this article.

***Video: Local CBS station report on Gehry retrospective at LACMA (CC)
 or try this link. to access the CBS station report***
***Video: And someone sneaked in to get a preview***
***Review: "'Frank Gehry' at LACMA, Los Angeles Times, Sept. 29, 2015"***


***The New York Times event, above, with Frank Gehry and LACMA director Michael Govan***

Images: Top, Elevation for Foundation Louis Vuitton.
Bottom, Foundation Louis Vuitton Study Model. Both © Gehry Partners, LLP.
Two videos on Foundation: watch this or watch this.

***READ THESE. BUT YOU DON'T NEED TO PRINT THESE***
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
general information
Directions and Parking



Examples of Gehry's corrugated cardboard furniture.

Pictured above is Gehry's Fondation Louis Vuitton,
 a contemporary art museum in Paris.
Read about it here.

WRITING and READING about ARCHITECTURE
"Why Don't We Read about Architecture?" by Allison Arieff, The New York Times, March 2, 2012

***"How to be an Architecture Critic" by Alexandra Lange, Places, March  2012***

"Sometimes We Do it Right" by Ada Louise Huxtable, The New York Times, 31 March 1968

"Why Does Writing Matter to Architects?"
by Alan Berman, The Architects' Journal, July 17, 2013

If you're so inclined, watch Frank Gehry as featured on The Simpsons.
 You might also wish to watch this, too. (with regret, not closed caption.)
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