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Knopf
May 2009
On Sale: April 21, 2009
320 pages
ISBN: 0307268004
EAN: 9780307268006
Kindle: B006XWY7DK
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Non-Fiction Biography
An unprecedented, intimate, and richly illustrated portrait
of Frank Gehry, one of the world’s most influential
architects. Drawing on the most candid, revealing, and
entertaining conversations she has had with Gehry over the
last twenty years, Barbara Isenberg provides new and
fascinating insights into the man and his
work.
Gehry’s subjects range from his childhood—when
he first built cities with wooden blocks on the floor of his
grandmother’s kitchen—to his relationships with clients and
his definition of a “great” client. We learn about his
architectural influences (including Le Corbusier and Frank
Lloyd Wright) and what he has learned from Michelangelo,
Rembrandt, and Rauschenberg.
We explore the thinking
behind his designs for the Guggenheim Bilbao and the Walt
Disney Concert Hall, the redevelopment of Atlantic Yards in
Brooklyn and Grand Avenue in Los Angeles, the Gehry
Collection at Tiffany’s, and ongoing projects in Toronto,
Paris, Abu Dhabi, and elsewhere. And we follow as Gehry
illuminates the creative process by which his ideas first
take shape—for example, through early drawings for the
Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, when the building’s trademark
undulating curves were mere scribbles on a page. Sketches,
models, and computer images provided by Gehry himself allow
us to see how so many of his landmark buildings have come to
fruition, step by step.
Conversations with Frank
Gehry is essential reading for everyone interested in
the art and craft of architecture, and for everyone
fascinated by the most iconic buildings of our time, as well
as the man and the mind behind them.
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