FRANK GAHRY

Personal life
Frank Gehry was born in 1929 Ortanao Tronto. His parents out of Polish Jews Frank Gehry was creative in his childhood has noted that his grandmother and encouraged him to develop his abilities and improve them and that was to build small towns of pieces of wood and some of the articles that it finds in the store with his grandmother when he spends the morning He was spending some time with his parents in the drawing, making it excel in the art world. Frank said, "My father thinks I am a dreamer" In 1947 he moved to California. And the work of the delivery truck driver and then studied at the University of Los Angeles and graduated from the University of Southern California

Personal life
Frank Gehry, "I worked as a truck driver and examined the university and worked on radio I was not good which then worked in the field of chemical engineering and I was not too well .. somehow I just started racking my brain about what the thing that I want??!! What the thing that makes me anxious and excited? ?!! what the thing that inspires me and makes me happy??!! and I remembered I love going to museums and look at paintings .. listening to music .. drawing .. and then trained in the field of architecture In 1952, he married Anita Snyder, whom he had two children .. Then graduated from the University of California in 1954 and separated from his wife .. In 1975 he married Berta Isabel Aglera his current wife and two children, whom he had also. Frank Gehry was a fan of hockey and the symbol FOB stands for his name (Frank Owen Gehry)

Academia
Gehry is a Distinguished Professor of Architecture at Columbia University and teaches advanced design studios at the Yale School of Architecture. He has received honorary doctoral degrees from Occidental College, Whittier College, the Southern California Institute of Architecture, the University of Toronto, the California College of Arts and Crafts, the Technical University of Nova Scotia, the Rhode Island School of Design, the California Institute of the Arts, and the Otis Art Institute at the Parsons School of Design.

In 1982 and 1989, he held the Charlotte Davenport Professorship in Architecture at Yale University.
In 1984, he held the Eliot Noyes Chair at Harvard University. In January 2011, he joined the University of Southern California (USC) faculty, as the Judge Widney Professor of Architecture

Awards
Gehry is a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council. In 1989, Gehry was the recipient of the Pritzker Prize for architecture. In 1994, Gehry was the recipient of The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize. In 1995, Gehry was the recipient of the Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award. In 1998, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.[17] In 1999, he was awarded the AIA Gold Medal. In 2000, Gehry was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum[18] In 2004, on November 3, Gehry was awarded the prestigious Woodrow Wilson Award for public service by the Woodrow Wilson Center of the Smithsonian Institution in New York City.

In 2006 on December 6, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Frank Gehry into the California Hall of Fame located at The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts. 2008 Medal

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Awards In recognition of his work, Frank Gehry has received numerous prestigious awards and distinctions, including: 1977 - Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture (American Academy of Arts and Letters.) 1989 - Pritzker Prize. 1992 - Wolf Foundation Prize for the Arts (Architecture). 1992 - Praemium Imperiale Award for Architecture, the "Japan Art Association." 1994 - Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize. 1998 - National Medal of Arts (AEB). 1998 - Friedrich Kiesler Prize. 1999 - Gold Medal of the AIA, American Institute of Architects (AEB). 2000 - Gold Medal, Royal Institute of British Architects. 2002 - Gold Medal for Architecture (American Academy of Arts and Letters). 2002 - Companion of the Order of Canada. 2003 - Silver Medal of Caldes de Malavella 2007 - Cross of the Order of the Principality of Andorra Charlemagne (later rejected)

representative works
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, USA Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain. Pritzker Pavilion, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Frank Gehry House (California) Hotel Marqus de Riscal, Elciego, Spain Dancing House, Prague, Czech Republic. DG Bank Building, Berlin, Germany. Stata Center, MIT, Boston, USA. Peter B. Building Lewis, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Maggie's Centre Dundee, Dundee, Scotland. Gehry Tower, Hanover, Germany. Frederick Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA The goldfish in the Olympic Port of Barcelona. Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein.

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL Los Angeles- California

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL

Location: Los Angeles- California Bounded by Hope Street, Grand Avenue, 1st and 2nd Streets Design concept: he design represents the style of their creator, architect Frank Gehry, could be considered a work of art in itself. The extravagance of its forms seems to defy any rules of harmony and symmetry. The forms are external inspired by a boat with sails drenched .

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WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL

Element design: The building is essentially a shell which consists of a series of interconnected volumes

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL

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The new AGO Expansion and renovation is Toronto-born Frank Gehrys first building in Canada and marks the very place where he made the initial connection between art and architecture.

the art gallery of Ontario (AGO) was founded in 1900 as the art museum of Toronto by a group of private citizens. the AGO moved to its current location in 1911, occupying a building known as the grange. in the 1920s, 1970s and the final one in the 1990s by barton myers. in 2002, publisher and art collector ken thomson donated his 2,000 piece art collection . the gallery knew they needed to expand in order to house this sizable donation. along with thompson, began closely collaborating with gehry on an addition to the gallery.

the first consideration gehry took into account was finding a way to unify the disparate areas of the gallery that have become a bit of a hodgepodge after six previous renovations. after seven years in the works the new gehry-designed AGO was unveiled on November 14, 2008.

FAADE
The buildings main facade stretches a full city block and is constructed of gently curving glass and Douglas Fir. This exterior, which encloses the sculpture promenade, allows for natural light to fill the building, connecting visitor and gallery to the community outside. the long glass faade that covers the galleria italia on the north side of the building.

gehry added the largest addition to the gallery through a new wing. this south wing is clad with bluetinted titanium and house the gallerys contemporary galleries.

this wing is also pierced by two cantilevered serpent-like staircases on both sides.
upon entering, visitors will see that gehry has grouped the gallerys bookstore, restaurant, theatre and caf to the east. this commercial hub also includes the AGOs free contemporary gallery. the atrium is linked to the gallery by a set of stairs and a winding ramp that snakes around an opening to the galleries below.

the walker court, the historic heart of the AGO, now lies at the centre of the building. the new galleria italia is located on the second floor at the north end of the AGO. his gallery stretches the entire length of the AGO with its long glass faade anchored to a ribbed wooden structure. inside the glass faade, a sculpture gallery is bathed in natural light. stretching the entire gallery are massive wooden beams. this extensive use of wood gives the gallery a natural warmth that humanizes the space. the glass wall also allows visitors to peer out into the street,

One of Gehrys early sources of career inspiration was the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898-1976), known as the father of Scandinavian modernism. The influence of Aaltos love of gently curving light-color wood, and his clean and airy architectural lines, can be sensed at the newly refurbished AGO.

"the art gallery of Ontario was where i first experienced art as child and it was grange park where i played, so this project means great deal to me. the building we envision will connect the city and its people to great art and art experiences "

MILLENIUM PARK, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

The idea of turning the abandoned park in a social center stage facing the lake Michigan using art (architecture, sculpture and music) was developed in 1997 by Mayor Richard M. Daley, and acquired a significant interest in engaging the participation of world-renowned architect Frank Gehry. The construction of the park would stretch from 1998 to 2004.

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"How do you make everyone - not just the people in the seats, but the people sitting 400 feet away on the lawn - feel good about coming to this place to listen to music? The answer is, you bring them into it. You make the proscenium larger; you build a trellis with a distributed sound system. You make people feel part of the experience (FRANK GEHRY)

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The park is divided into two areas: an area of gardens, laid out like a Cartesian parallel to Michigan Avenue and the other more free, defined by a virtual deck of an elliptical and chaired by Gehry's Pritzker Pavilion. The park is linked to the lake via a bridge over the motorway Columbus, also designed by Gehry.

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It has been the most significant element of the set, and an icon that is seen approaching the lake from the city, the Pritzker Pavilion bears the unmistakable stamp of the Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry.

MILLENIUM PARK, CHICAGO

Gehry, who in 1989 received the Pritzker Prize, the most prestigious in architecture, using his well-known vocabulary of organic forms and sculptural metal ribbons that twist like a cloud of silver and define acoustic shell of the pavilion. With a seating capacity for 4000 and various acoustic and digital equipment, is one of the halls of outdoor concerts in the world's most technologically advanced.

t is a structure of 40 m, consisting of series of steel plates arranged on a metal frame too, so its imposing, ostentatious and voluptuous presence is merely a facade armed spectacularly.

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In addition to the band shell lawn is an expansion of up to 7000 people, which has been crosslinked with a metal tubular frame and defining an elliptical floor space.

The acoustics was developed in collaboration with the company Talaske, who first provided conditions for the musicians to hear themselves on stage, and secondly to expand the sound worked as closely to the audience.

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The band shell is the scene of the Grant Park Music Festival, an event of open-air classical music, the only free show of its kind in the country.

Frank Ghery quetes

+ When everybody else is ready for the ending, Im just ready to begin. + Architecture is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it, we believe in its potential to make a difference, to enlighten and to enrich the human experience, to penetrate the barriers of misunderstanding and provide a beautiful context for life's drama. + Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them. Don't try to be me, or try to be Frank Lloyd Wright, or try to be I M Pei. Try to be yourself. You have to understand what drives people to build buildings. + I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect, and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity, and inequality, even passion and opportunity.

Frank Ghery quetes

+ Take what comes your way. Do the best with it. Be responsible as you can and something good will happen, and it has.

+ I know I draw without taking my pen off the page. I just keep going, and that my drawings I think of them as scribbles. I don't think they mean anything to anybody except to me, and then at the end of the day, the end of the project they wheel out these little drawings and they're damn close to what the finished building is and it's the drawing..
+ You have to build up a credibility before the support comes to you. + I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building. + Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.