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| Frank
O. Gehry |
USA |
| 1929: |
Frank
was Born in Toronto, Canada,This Pritzker Prize-winning architect
recently turned the Basque backwater of Bilbao into a household
name with his miraculous, titanium-wrapped structure for the
Guggenheim Museum's most ambitious outpost. The confidence with
which he has expanded the vocabulary of architecture is clearly
demonstrated in his furniture designs. |
| 1987: |
In
1987, he designed the "Little Beaver" and "Grandpa Chair" for
the series "Experimental Edges", today in the Vitra Edition
of Vitra; exhibition entitled "The Architecture of Frank O.
Gehry" at the Walker Art Institute, Minneapolis . He later worked
as a designer with Victor Gruen Associates, Robert and Co. Architects
in Atlanta, Pereira and Luckman in Los Angeles and André Remondet
in Paris. He has also collaborated on projects with sculptors
Richard Serra and Claes Oldenburg. His buildings include the
California Aerospace Museum and Walt Disney Concert Hall in
Los Angeles, the Fish Dance Restaurant in Kobe, Japan, the Vitra
Design Museum in Weil am Rhine, Germany, the Experience Music
Project in Seattle, |
| 2000: |
In
2000, he worked on the Conde Nast: Titanium Café, Times Square,
New York. |
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His collection of cardboard furniture, Easy Edges, set a new
precedent for the use of materials. He has been on the faculty
at Harvard and Yale, and is a Fellow of the American Institute
of Architects. Mr. Gehry has been the subject of several exhibitions,
including a recent retrospective at New York's Guggenheim Museum. |
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