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BACKGROUND
Frank Gehry was born in Toronto, Ontario to
parents who did not really appreciate his creative
side. Encouraged by his grandmother he pursued his
dreams, went to school to get a degree in architecture
and moved on to set up his own practice in Los Angeles
in 1962 that eventually became Gehry partnership.
INTRODUCTION
THESIS
COMMUNICATION IDEA
The traditional starting point for a designer is to begin
sketching until a clear idea forms and then to move on
to modeling and finally create any documents that will
be needed to build the piece. Gehrys approach is very
similar to the conventional method but he has a twist
to it. Like all designers he begins with a sketch. These
sketches are often very crude line drawings that look
like a lot of scribbling to anyone other than Gehry. He
works with them until his idea forms and then moves
straight into model building where all of the kinks are
worked out with three dimensional shapes instead of on
paper or on a computer. Gehrys designs are often so
complicated that it is impossible to create on a computer
so he and his team developed a special software with
a light pen that would be touched to the corner of the
model and automatically transfered onto the computer
software, making the process much smoother.
As part of the after modern movement Frank Gehry
is generalized as a post modern architect who, after
further analysis, is more accurately categorized as a
deconstructionist. Architects in the deconstruction
movement use a method of fragmentation to create
their buildings. Fragmentation is taking different
volumes and shapes or pieces of volumes and shapes
and putting them together in unrecognizable fashions.
FRAGMENTATION
Fragmentation is a part of the Deconstruction
movement of Post modernism. The idea of this
movement is to take different shapes and volumes
and put them together in unconventional ways so that
they collide to form different shapes that in turn make
the spaces of the buildings. In contrast to modernism
that uses composition of spaces Frank Gehry uses a
technique refereed to as assemblage. (Curtis 605)
Assemblage gives his buildings a design language of
...angles and tilted volumes introduced visual tension
and ambiguities. (Curtis 663) The idea behind using
the forms was to let the forms be the thing and to
replace decoration, to get passion and feeling into the
building without resorting to 1900th century models
(Gehry - Bringing Movement to Architecture).
Unlike other architects Gehry begins his buildings on
the inside and works his way out. Forget the exterior, it
starts with the inside. That inside is the key issue. (Gehry
on Architecture of Walt Disney Concert Hall). The Walt
Disney Concert Hall follows the same pattern. Since this
building was to be used as a concert hall as well as the
home of the Los Anglos Phil Harmonic there were certain acoustical requirements that needed to be followed
to make the space a success. Inside of the hall follows
the acoustical requirements and it started to become
sail like, I wanted to make the outside look the same.
CASE STUDY
OVERVIEW
Interior: The idea behind the interior of the Walt Disney Concert Hall is that there is a box and on either
side of the box you have toilets and stairs with a foyer
(Frank Gehry on Architecture of the Disney Concert
Hall). To make up these spaces there are a variety of
shapes that Gehry cleverly crammed together. The circular spaces run into the rectangular wooden pieces to
create interest no matter where a person looks. All of
this is covered in natural Los Anglos light that Gehry
took advantage of by adding skylights to the building.
CASE STUDY
USE OF METAPHOR
Frank
Gehry
CASE STUDY
SAIL METAPHOR
CASE STUDY
INTERIOR
OBJECT
LIVING ROOM
FOR THE CITY
Creates curiosity
Welcoming to all
groups
Fluid movement
guides you through
the space
Elegant and classic
while still being post
modern
CONCLUSION
EXTERIOR
SUMMARY
Through the use of deconstruction, fragmentation, and metaphors he assembled an inviting space that would
serve the community for years to come. The post modern look appealed to the younger generation while still
keeping some elements very classic and elegant to continue to attract an older generation as well. Assemblage works very well in this building to create interest that the older idea of composition could not achieve.
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