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Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry

Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry

Goldberger, Paul

Paperback

ArtistsLiterary FiguresArchitects

Publisher Price: $22.00

ISBN10: 0307946398
ISBN13: 9780307946393
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Nov 14 2017
Pages: 544
Weight: 1.54
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
From Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Paul Goldberger, a full-fledged critical biography of Frank Gehry, undoubtedly the most famous architect of our time.

Fascinating. . . . An informative, startling journey into the inner sanctums of modern architecture's power structure. --The New York Times Book Review

Riveting. . . . Full of little-known facts about the Pritzker Prize-winner that will surprise the most knowledgable Gehry-philes. --Architectural Digest

Goldberger follows Gehry from his humble origins--the son of working-class Jewish immigrants in Toronto--to the heights of his extraordinary career. He explores Gehry's relationship to Los Angeles, a city that welcomed outsider artists and profoundly shaped him in his formative years. He surveys the full range of his work, from the Bilbao Guggenheim to the Walt Disney Concert Hall in L.A. to the architect's own home in Santa Monica, which galvanized his neighbors and astonished the world. He analyzes his carefully crafted persona, in which an amiable surface masks a driving ambition. And he discusses his use of technology, not just to change the way a building looks, but to revolutionize the very practice of the field.

Comprehensive and incisive, Building Art is a sweeping view of a singular artist--and an essential story of architecture's modern era.

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