Building Art by Paul Goldberger

Building Art by Paul Goldberger

"This first full-fledged critical biography of Frank Gehry presents and evaluates the work of a man whom fifty architects, critics, and historians assembled by Vanity Fair designated "the most important architect in the world." It discusses at length his major buildings- from his own house--an "exploded" Dutch Colonial in Santa Monica--to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, which has almost single-handedly transformed contemporary architecture. It considers the work in light of Gehry's personal life- the influence of his immigrant grandparents, his two marriages, his close relationships to an unusual circle of celebrated clients and friends, his longtime therapist. It analyzes his carefully created "aw, shucks" persona and the intense ambition it masks; examines Gehry's anxieties about fame and how his "outsider" status as a Los Angeles architect allowed him to experiment in useful ways; and finally discusses how he thinks about and employs technology to change not just the way a building can look but the way architecture itself is practiced."

Paul Goldberger is a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair. He is the former Architecture Critic for the New Yorker, where he wrote the magazine's 'Sky Line' column. He also holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at the New School in New York City. He began his career at the New York Times, where in 1984 his architecture criticism was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, the highest award in journalism. His many books include Building Art - The Life and Work of Frank Gehry (2015). Brian Rose studied at Cooper Union with photographers Joel Meyerowitz and Larry Fink. His documentation of lower Manhattan over a twenty-year period resulted in three books - Time and Space on the Lower East Side, Metamorphosis, and WTC, a chronicle of the Twin Towers and the rebuilding of the World Trade Center. His study of Berlin after the fall of the Wall led to The Lost Border, The Landscape of the Iron Curtain. His photographs are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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ISBN 13	9780307701534
ISBN 10	0307701530
Title	Building Art
Author	Paul Goldberger
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Year published	2015-09-15
Number of pages	512
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