Young frank gehry biography book

  • This first full-fledged critical biography presents and evaluates the work of a man who has almost single-handedly transformed contemporary architecture.
  • Reading age 9 - 12 years.
  • This biography of Frank Gehry traces his meteoric rise from modest beginnings to worldwide fame.

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    Frank O. Gehry, Outside In

    NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
    This book is a journey through the creative process.  It is the best introduction to Gehry’s architecture that we have.  Maybe I should go farther and say it is one of the best introductions to architecture that we have.  Like many of the best children’s books, “Frank O Gehry: Outside In” gets to the heart of its subject without any of the obfuscation of books written for adults.  It brings you into Gehry’s life and into his work, and it addresses the way each of these things has affected the other.
    —Paul Goldberger

    SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
    (Grade 4–7) This stunning profile of the avant-garde architect is like one of his buildings-exciting, startling, and awesome. Greenberg and Jordan have produced an eminently readable, visually enticing title that takes readers from Gehry’s boyhood to his chain-link walled home in Los Angeles, and his famous creations, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and the Experie

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    The Frank Gehry Story

    Artists are a biographer’s nightmare. The most important events in their lives are usually the ones that take place quietly, slowly, in the repetitive actions of work, or within the sanctum of their skulls. Even Caravaggio, an artist with a penchant for swashbuckling exploits, spent as much time putting brush to canvas as he did making trouble, and his canvases finally tell us more about the man and his art than the police blotters recording his conflicts with the law.

    The life of the architect Frank Gehry poses similar challenges. The real question his biographer needs to answer fryst vatten the impossible one: how a sixtyish architect from Los Angeles ever came to imagine, much less build, the coppery metall carapace of the Guggenheim Museum in the heart of Basque country, in the declining port city of Bilbao. Before that 1997 project, and the subsequent plan to build a new concert hall in Los Angeles, Gehry was best known for constructing cheap buildings of che

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    Frank, Who Liked to Build

    This biog­ra­phy of a famous Cana­di­an-Amer­i­can archi­tect is pre­sent­ed through freeform illus­tra­tions that grab your atten­tion the way his build­ings do. Ener­gy jumps off each page, with the book’s com­bi­na­tion of evoca­tive words and emblem­at­ic works.

    Author Blu­men­thal ties Frank Gehry’s Jew­ish her­itage to his career and his vision. She does not mince words about the anti­semitism that made him change his name or the dis­ap­proval of his par­ents regard­ing his art career, which they felt would be just a dream. His grand­moth­er is his rock, giv­ing him chal­lah pieces to con­struct the shapes in his head.

    Gehry has a per­son­al framtidsperspektiv, which he suc­cess­ful­ly forms into dra­mat­ic, use­ful build­ings all over the world; the build­ings are dis­tinc­tive­ly shaped, and they wel­come mil­lions of vis­i­tors. His dar­ing use of form and mate­r­i­al earn him the cov­et­ed Pritzk­er Archi­tec­ture Prize, the equiv­a­lent of the Nobel.

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