Sketches of Frank Gehry. Sketches of Frank Gehry (2006) Directed by Sydney Pollack; Documentary. Rated PG-13 for brief strong language 83 minutes. First he doodles on sketch pads. A form emerges. He uses construction paper, scissors and tape to make a three-dimensional model from it. He plays with the model.
Announced yesterday, the part purchase, part gift includes a comprehensive overview of projects from the start of the 88-year-old Canadian-American architect's career. 'Frank Gehry is undoubtedly the world's most famous living architect,' said director Thomas W Gaehtgens. 'This extensive archive, covering the first three decades of his illustrious career, offers an in-depth look at the genesis of Gehry's distinctive style and includes many of the projects for which he is internationally known.'
The Gehry Archive comprises approximately 1,000 sketches, more than 120,000 working drawings and over 100,000 slides. The Gehry Archive includes approximately 1,000 sketches created by the architect during the first three decades of his career Hundreds of boxes of office records, personal papers, and correspondence, 168 working models, and 112 presentation models are also included. The material encompasses the period from 's early graduate studies to the 1988 competition entry for the in Downtown LA, the year before he won the prestigious for architecture. The collection also contains digital files, which represent the architect's development of the software platforms needed for him to be able to plan the construction of his complicated buildings. Gehry lives in the house he designed for himself in Santa Monica, part of LA's metropolitan area. His was approved in August 2016, and he has also been. His best-known works elsewhere includes the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the in Paris and the in California.
The architect's is due to break ground today. The material encompasses the period from Gehry's early graduate studies to the 1988 competition entry for the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Downtown LA 'I'm honoured by the attention of the Getty Research Institute delving into the history of my work, my beginnings, and other things that I never thought anybody would be interested in,' said Gehry. 'I'm very moved that this great institution, with its resources to search for the best examples of creativity in our world, has found me an interesting party. I will be forever grateful.' The Getty trust was started by businessman and art collector J Paul Getty in 1953. The institution and its museum are now housed at a -designed complex in the Santa Monica Mountains.
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Photo: Thomas Mayer The key to Frank O. Gehry’s architecture is in his drawings. 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 Guggenheim Bilbao is a remarkable turning point in Gehry’s work and in the history of architecture – because it manages to maintain in built form the impromptu sketchiness of his drawings. It’s a sketch in real space, a sketch you can walk into.
Drawing is the medium most capable of closely recording the evolution of artistic thought – from brain to hand to pencil to paper and back to brain. Walking through Gehry’s sketchy building is like navigating a projection of psychological space that is continuously unfolding. The result: Every visitor is always located at its exact center, and the center moves with you.
Christopher Knight Art Critic Los Angeles Times.