Frank Gehry: The City and Music is the result of a unique collaboration between the architect and leading critic Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe. It focuses on two projects, Gehry's unrealised proposal for the rehabilitation of Berlin's Museum Island and his soon to be completed Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, while discussing other projects such as the Pavilion for the Performing Arts in Concord, California, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, and the Experience Music Project in Seattle. Gehry's much debated relationship to Minimalist sculpture, use of new building materials and attitude to tradition, are discussed with regard to his belief in architecture as a democratic practice which is at once practical and expressive.
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'Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe challenges us with every sentence, every paragraph, and every page to see the world - and especially the work of artists and architects such as Frank Gehry - anew. Gilbert-Rolfe's text is essential reading.' Richard Koshalek, Director Emeritus, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
'Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe powerfully demonstrates the significance of Frank Gehry's architecture. Frank Gehry: The City and Music positions Gehry's mature work as an exercise in liberation, an adventurous experiment with architectural materials, which nonetheless resonates with the client's programme.' Bruce Mau, Creative Director, Bruce Mau Design
'Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe powerfully demonstrates the significance of Frank Gehry's architecture. Frank Gehry: The City and Music positions Gehry's mature work as an exercise in liberation, an adventurous experiment with architectural materials, which nonetheless resonates with the client's programme.' Bruce Mau, Creative Director, Bruce Mau Design
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Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe is a painter and art critic, and teaches in the graduate school at Art Center, Pasadena, California, USA. He has been awarded National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in painting and criticism as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship in painting, and in 1998 was presented with the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism by the College Art Association.
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Frank Gehry: I'm an architect. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
final design model, conceptual personae, design process model, architectural programme, competition model, museum culture, concert hall Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, Frank Gehry, Concord Pavilion, Bilbao Guggenheim, New York, Guggenheim Museum, Experience Music Project, Neue Zollhof, Spain Photo, Whit Preston, Der Spiegel, New Minimalism, Disney Hall, Phase One, David Heald Copyright, Grand Avenue, The Practicality of Planes Taking Flight, Towards Colour, Neues Museum, National Gallery, Disney Music Hall, Tom Bonner, Tomaso Bradshaw, American Center New!
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Frank Gehry: I'm an architect. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
final design model, conceptual personae, design process model, architectural programme, competition model, museum culture, concert hall Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, Frank Gehry, Concord Pavilion, Bilbao Guggenheim, New York, Guggenheim Museum, Experience Music Project, Neue Zollhof, Spain Photo, Whit Preston, Der Spiegel, New Minimalism, Disney Hall, Phase One, David Heald Copyright, Grand Avenue, The Practicality of Planes Taking Flight, Towards Colour, Neues Museum, National Gallery, Disney Music Hall, Tom Bonner, Tomaso Bradshaw, American Center New!
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- Beyond Piety: Critical Essays on the Visual Arts, 1986-1993 (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism) by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe in Front Matter, page 98, and page 127
- Art and Objecthood: Essays and Reviews by Michael Fried on page 39, page 40, and page 61
- The Ethical Function of Architecture by Karsten Harries in Front Matter, page 28, and page 98
- Poetry, Language, Thought (Perennial Classics) by Martin Heidegger on page 28, and page 29
- Mason & Dixon. Thomas Pynchon by Thomas Pynchon on page 122, and page 127
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- Frank Gehry: The City and Music by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Contemporary Architecture and the Digital Design Process by Peter Szalapaj in Back Matter
- The John Adams Reader: Essential Writings on an American Composer by Thomas May on page 91
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