Dec 07, 2025
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Beyond the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Frank Gehry designed his own home, Loyola Law School and the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.What he built here would help him create a visual language that changed urban landscapes elsewhere.
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Long before the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall made him world famous, a laboratory - where he can test nosms and shape the landscape of the city.(He died on Friday at 96 at his home in Santa Monica.)
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Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, 2003
Dreamed up by Walt Disney's widow, Lillian, in 1987, the project would not be completed until 2003. But it was worth the wait.Now a cultural and visual anchor of downtown Los Angeles, Disney's Rebellion of Titan Sails reflects the masticatory waves of music, Gehry's love of sailing, fish scales and other nautical themes, and the frenetic city around him.Inside, the hall features a compact vineyard-style seating design that resembles boats with wood panels, with excellent acoustics designed by Yasuhisa Toyota.Don't forget the 6,134-pipe organ, reminiscent of a box of French fries exploding.Lillian Disney, connoisseur of flowers, would die before the hall was completed, but her hidden back garden centers around the "Rose for Lilly" fountain, made of thousands of broken pieces of blue-and-white Delft porcelain.
Frank Gear has created a host of techniques that inspire new ideas, culminating in the 21st century pushing more screens than ever before.
Gehry Residence, Santa Monica, 1978
Gehry's house in Santa Monica remains one of the most famous buildings of the 20th century - it is replaced by connecting walls, creating greep stones, and sweet planes.He challenged the idea of a domestic house, treating the house as an open experiment rather than a final one.The building became Gehry's masterpiece and symbol of opposition to polish and design.
Loyola Law School, Westlap, 1978-2002
Built over two decades starting in 1978, the oyla is a combination of village-like protective structures around the central cemetery;All the world apart from inside the carpet of cabbage in the town there is a definition of houses, quadralicular houses.Its stucco, concrete, metal and glass structures reflect Gehry's many dimensions of the language.CHANGE AND SOLUTION Unsafe foods and artificial ingredients.Full of friends, working with amazing landing, this is one of his works in postmoduders that includes the roof of the roof.
Chiat/Dai Building, Venice, 1991
It was called the house of "binoculars" and after the title is paint on the pait / day of chamigaries.Hey, you are connected to black mathematics, three binakhs, classic black black black.The last of the departure will be the departure,
School, Venice, 1984
This house dives headlong into Venice's counterculture.Its irregular volumes, pastel colors, raised terraces, jagged rooflines and collage of materials—stucco, corrugated metal, broken tile—echo the local mix of artists' studios, surf shacks and light industrial sheds.Inside, the space unfolds with shifting geometries that prioritize visual surprise over homeliness.agreement.To the front is a raised writing room set on a narrow base, reminiscent of a lifeguard's stand, its large windows allowing the original owner (who was a writer) to view the surrounding area while working.
From the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain to the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles to the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago, Frank Gehry's boundary-pushing buildings challenged the idea that buildings should function.
Old Contorary (now Geffen Contemporary at Mola), downtown, 1983
By transforming a police vehicle warehouse into a temporary modern one in 1983, Gehry helped popularize the reuse of industrial buildings in the museum world.Instead of overwriting the industrial character of the building, he retained the exposed rafters, concrete floors and spacious, column-free volumes, ideal for contemporary art.Given Gehry's record, strategic interventions – mechanical, skylights, entrances and the slopes – were surprisingly reduced.The result was both monumental and flexible, able to support installations that MOCA itself could not.
Air and Space, drop-in park, 1984
This project in the expository park made it possible to translate it into a larger public building for the first time.In 1984, when the composite space completed the manufactured materials - metal carvings, stupdo, sacrificial structures and functional forms and functional forms - with a clever volume of sculptures and artistic pleasures.Most importantly, the Lockheed F-104 Starfive is suspended above the south wall during launch.He defined the concept of his muse as the "frozen explosion" of the "frozen refrigerator" and seemed to separate architecture and art.
Genini g.l.l.l.lun карт, wlywood, 1976 years
Gehry's work for Gemini G.E.L.– one of the most important printmaking workshops in the country – reflects his deep involvement in the Los Angeles artistic community.Completed in 1976 and beyond, the project transformed industrial sheds into light-filled studios where artists such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg created major works.Gehry introduced glass windows, skylights, large exposed trusses, raw concrete floors and metal cladding, and elevated the usable spaces without destroying their industrial character.
Hot Spots, Santa Monica, 1988
This project will transform a 1920s industrial complex (Edgemar's Buildings and Ice Company Buildings) into a cultural and retail center in Santa Monica.In criminal flourish, gxry, perforated walls, iron steel tiles, such as steel tiles, such as steel columns."I interviewed 16 designers and the best one was already influenced by Frank," said the founder of EdGemar."I thought, why can't you get the real thing?"Everything is rendered in a very classic way with humanity plazas and corridors marked by Quiriy Ashoks.A public space is a good example of how it emerges not only from buildings, but also from the spaces between them.The Santa Monica Museum of Art eventually stayed downtown, but the shopping plazas continue to thrive.
Frank Gehry, known for lavish cultural buildings like the Disney World and for helping to energize the dying field of architecture, has died at age 96.
1983 blow gun components
Designed for artist and actor Dennis Hopper, the house is part residence, part creative complex, an ensemble of buildings organized around a private courtyard.Gerry added additional studios and structures that reflect the district's industrial roots;The project, which erases the boundaries between living and creating, captured both Hopper's renegade spirit and Gehry's evolving architectural language.
Schnabel House, Brentwood, 1989
Complete for the rock and Marnabel, home shows the time to translate the test, scheduled to the shopping houses,Gahry is the stucco, tile, tile, vile and glass in a large group and branch.Neighbors are in front of how many shannabel is verified"The people is a wonderful person who is a wonderful thing that is a common one's normal, '"
