Architecture at Everest-Semester 2: Week 1 Post 1

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Architecture and Design
Audie Santos
5/20/13

May 20th, 2013

Documentary:Frank Gehry 

 Today, the limelight goes to one of the most creative and unique architects who poses architecture on a multitude of perspectives which has caught our eye and whose work can be found in a lot of our buildings today, the one and only Frank Gehry. Frank Gehry was born on February 28, 1927 in Toronto, Canada. His interest with architecture started as a child when his grandmother would bring him wood chippings, and together they would play with them and create cities and highways and all sorts of structures. He also drew a lot of things with his father. This gave him the needed intuition to start his career as an architect, and when the question came, he had already decided to become an architect.

Here we can see Frank Gehry (Top) showing Brad Pitt (Bottom) his architectural arts.

 

 http://awesomepeoplehangingouttogether.tumblr.com/post/30388984229/brad-pitt-and-frank-gehry

 Frank Gehry's style consists of a mixture of art and a somewhat denial to the laws of Physics. His style of architecture fulfills our basic expectations and then goes a bit further by putting a "wow" factor into it. For example, Frank Gehry's own house displays his ingenuity. Like any other normal person Frank bought a normal house and left it as is. It was not until he decided to truly make the house his own, that his wacky sense of things came about. He began to add on to the building with out jutting shapes that would catch the attention of the eye. He believes that the use of simple materials can create something grand but not in the way a large palace would. It is a different feeling when looking at Gehry's work.

The home of Frank Gehry in Santa Monica California

The original red house can be seen under the blue shell.
 This is where Frank Gehry resides today.









http://designcrave.com/2009-04-02/famous-architects-homes/