About the book
Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Paul Goldberger writes the first full critical biography of Frank Gehry, weighing the buildings alongside the life behind them. He follows Gehry from a working-class Toronto childhood in a Jewish immigrant family to Los Angeles, where he moved as a teenager, and into architecture school. The work runs from early houses of plywood and chain-link fencing and lamps shaped like fish to his own house in Santa Monica, the titanium Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, and the sixteen-year effort to complete Walt Disney Concert Hall. Goldberger also examines Gehry's ambition behind his modest persona, his anxieties about fame, and how he uses technology to change the way architecture is practiced.
Architizer chief executive Marc Kushner said that, whatever one thinks of Gehry's buildings, it offers a fascinating look at how an architect becomes an international phenomenon and sets off a global rethink of architecture known as the Bilbao effect.
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Marc Kushner (CEO/Architizer.com)
This book just came out and it is really stunning. Whether you like Gehry’s work or hate it, it is a fascinating deep dive into how someone becomes an international phenomenon and spawns a global re-evaluation of architecture (the Bilbao effect). Bonus is that it deals with some of my favorite issues: Jewish guilt, family disfunction, self-deprecation and wearing head-to-toe black.
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