architect Frank gehry disney concert hall and residence

FRANK GEHRY

FACT FILEBorn Frank Owen Goldberg February 28, 1929 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Nationality Canadian, American

Alma mater University of Southern California

Occupation Architect

Practice Gehry Partners, LLP

Awards

AIA Gold MedalNational Medal of ArtsOrder of CanadaPritzker PrizePraemium Imperiale

CareerGehry established his practice in Los Angeles in 1962, which eventually became the Gehry partnership in 2001. Gehry's earliest commissions were all in Southern California, where he designed a number of relatively small-scale yet innovative commercial structures In 1989, Gehry was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The jury cited Gehry as "Always open to experimentation, he has as well a sureness and maturity that resists, in the same way that Picasso did", being bound either by critical acceptance or his successes. His buildings are juxtaposed collages of spaces and materials that make users appreciative of both the theatre and the back-stage, simultaneously revealed.

Buildings

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao,Walt Disney Concert Hall,Gehry Residence, Louis Vuitton Foundation, 8 Spruce Street,Weisman Art Museum, Dancing House, Art Gallery of Ontario,EMP Museum, Cinémathèque française, Biomuseo, Ohr-O'Keefe Museum Of Art

Much of Gehry's work falls within the style of Deconstructivism, which is often referred to as Post-structuralist in nature for its ability to go beyond current modalities of structural definition. This can be seen in Gehry's house in Santa MonicaGehry’s style at times seems unfinished or even crude, but his work is consistent . Gehry has been called "the apostle of chain-link fencing and corrugated metal siding"

ARCHITECTURAL STYLE

BUILDINGS BY GEHRY

Gehry's residence

Disney concert hall

GEHRY'S RESIDENCE

General information

Type House

Architectural style Deconstructivist

Address 1002 22nd Street Santa Monica,

California-90403

Coordinates 34°2′6.62″N118°29′5.13″W

The Gehry Residence is architect Frank Gehry's own house. It was originally an extension, designed by Gehry and built around an existing Dutch colonial style house. It makes use of unconventional materials, such as Chainlink fences and corrugated steel. It is sometimes considered one of the earliest deconstructivist buildings

Gehry residence

Gehry actually did keep the existing house almost completely in tact, but not in a conventional manner. The Dutch colonnial home was left in tact and the new house was built around it. Holes were made, walls were stripped, torn down and put up, and the old quiet house became a loud shriek of contemporary style among the neighboring mansions–literally.

Floor plan for gehry residence

First floor second floor

DISNEY CONCERT HALL

General informationLocation 111 South Grand Avenue Los Angeles, California U.S.A.

Coordinates 34°03′19″N 118°15′00″W Public transit Civic Center/Grand Park (Regional Connector future)

Owner Los Angeles Music Center

Type Concert hall

Seating type Reserved

Capacity 2,265

Built 1999–2003

Opened October 24, 2003

Construction cost $130 million (plus $110 million for parking garage)

Disney Concert Hall

The hall is in a vineyard seating configuration, similar to the Berliner Philharmonie by Hans Scharoun.Lillian Disney made an initial gift of $50 million in 1987 to build a performance venue as a gift to the people of Los Angeles and a tribute to Walt Disney's devotion to the arts and to the city. The Frank Gehry-designed building opened on October 24, 2003.

Performers and critics agreed that it was well worth this extra time taken by the time the hall opened to the public.[5] During the summer rehearsals a few hundred VIPs were invited to sit in including donors, board members and journalists. Writing about these rehearsals, Los Angeles Times

The walls and ceiling of the hall are finished with Douglas-fir while the floor is finished with oak. Columbia Showcase & Cabinet Co. Inc., based in Sun Valley, CA, produced all of the ceiling panels, wall panels and architectural woodwork for the main auditorium and lobbies. The Hall's reverberation time is approximately 2.2 seconds unoccupied and 2.0 seconds occupied.After the construction, modifications were made to the Founders Room exterior; while most of the building's exterior was designed with stainless steel given a matte finish, the Founders Room and Children's Amphitheater were designed with highly polished mirror-like panels. The reflective qualities of the surface were amplified by the concave sections of the Founders Room walls. Some residents of the neighboring condominiums suffered glare caused by sunlight that was reflected off these surfaces and concentrated in a manner similar to a parabolic mirror.

PLAN

Interior view of Disney concert hall

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