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Bezig met laden... Frank O.Gehry: The Complete Works (editie 2003)door Kurt W. Forster, Francesco Dal Co
Informatie over het werkFrank O. Gehry: The Complete Works door Francesco Dal Co
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This book was something of a milestone for me: it was the first high-dollar book ($75, from what I recall) I bought after graduating from architecture school, getting a job, and moving into my own apartment in Chicago. That kind of purchase could have easily happened at Prairie Avenue Bookshop, but living in Lincoln Park it took place at a small neighborhood bookshop that may not exist anymore as well – for sure it was an impulse buy. I can't say I was a huge fan of Gehry then, though I did like his Vitra Design Museum when I visited a few years before and I was one of the many people who got excited by his Guggenheim Bilbao. The latter is on the cover of this massive book, and I'm guessing it's one reason such a thorough monograph was made, coming out one year after it's 1997 opening. Lots of architects have monographs, but few deserve "complete works." This one finds Gehry's buildings and projects presented in chronological order (by project starts), with important works given multiple pages and their opposite given as little as half a page; only a few are not documented with some sort of image. The front matter has long essays by Dal Co and Forster (building descriptions are by Hadley Arnold), while the back matter includes a "project register," a biography, and a bibliography. An inexcusable omission is an index – finding a particular project without knowledge of its dates is annoying and cross-referencing, say, Rouse buildings in Columbia, Maryland, is impossible without Post-it notes. Hence the four-star rating for this five-star book. (Review originally written in June 2017.) ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"American architect Frank O. Gehry is one of the great architects of the twentieth century. His Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, completed in 1997, has been heralded as the most important building of its time. Yet his exceptional career has never been comprehensively presented. This first major monograph on Gehry's work includes more than 250 buildings and projects designed throughout his forty-year career, each fully documented with photographs, presentation drawings, and Gehry's own sketches." "The architect's early work - the Davis Studio and Residence in Malibu, the multistage renovation of the Hollywood Bowl, the first remodeling of his own house in Santa Monica - explores various strains of modern architecture in an attempt to establish a personal voice." "Most recently, Gehry's work has experimented with complex forms and sculptural geometries and includes a group of significant cultural projects, including the Vitra Design Museum in Germany, the American Center in Paris, and the Frederick R. Weisman Museum at the University of Minnesota."--BOOK JACKET. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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