Saturday, March 20, 2010

Frank Gehry as a deconstructivist


The architecture of Frank Gehry, is closely related to that of the city of Los Angeles. He escapes the monumental, ignored the topological criteria, and bears with the mark, the stigma of the temporary and the ephemeral. He will respect a way of doing things but to him environmental preexistence does not count. Some of his early works started by studying different architectures in Los Angeles. His first work was the house of the artist Ron Davis which was built in 1972. He took the idea of how Davis draws his paintings and came up with something similar for the drawings of the house of Davis. Gehry wanted to be close to the freedom of an artist so he always discovered the materials that he wanted to use for building house instead of just focusing on the drawings of the building. (Eisenman, 264-266)

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