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CONVERSATIONS WITH FRANK GEHRY
By: Barbara Isenberg
Knopf
May 2009
On Sale: April 21, 2009
320 pages
ISBN: 0307268004
EAN: 9780307268006
Kindle: B006XWY7DK
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography
An unprecedented, intimate, and richly illustrated portrait of Frank Gehry, one of the worldβs 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.
Gehryβs subjects range from his childhoodβwhen he first built cities with wooden blocks on the floor of his grandmotherβs kitchenβto his relationships with clients and his definition of a βgreatβ 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 Tiffanyβs, 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 shapeβfor example, through early drawings for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, when the buildingβs 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.
 Media BuzzTavis Smiley - December 19, 2013
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