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Frank Gehry: The Houses

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Gehry's a world-class architect renowned for his curvilinear buildings
and splashy, dramatic museums and concert halls. Early in his career
he designed many private one and two-family residences, and it is
these smaller projects that are the subject of Friedman's book.

The author does not merely produce plans, photos and analysis of these
residential works, but includes interviews with homeowners (including
the maestro architect himself about his ideas for his own house) and
Gehry's associate, Greg Walsh. One gains insight into how Gehry would
envision and change his architectural ideas and experiments with
various materials during construction. The projects sometimes
involved quite ordinary building materials, like chain link fencing,
asphalt shingles and plywood, used as decorative elements, and it is
intriguing to read how homeowners react to Gehry's design and
materials suggestions before and after their implementation.

This book about Frank Gehry was a Christmas gift to a dear old friend who is a great admirer of the man. Well, I cannot tell you how thrilled and overjoyed he was to receive this amazing book!
Well-written, perfectly detailed, and beautifully presented... what more could you ask for!