my bryce

This is my model of my building. I made this on Bryce. Bryceis a 3d modeling site. My building is goin to be a shopping center. the bottom of my building will be filled with resturants. My building is located at west 117th and manhattan avenue.

my building

I made my building using cardboard. I also used thick paper. My buildings name is Crown Towers. It took me about 3 days to complete my model. See My Bryce for more information about my tower.

in the end

Frank Gehry most famous pieces was the Gehry residence because it was his own home and he took the original design and made it his own. Almost all of his designs that I saw had some kind weird twist or turn which makes them all so unique. Another building that he did was the Experience Music Project this building is a museum of music history founded by Paul Allen which he is also the co-founder of Microsoft, this museum is located on the campus of Seattle. The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a modern art museum, located in Bilbao. Basque country in Spain it was built alongside the Nervion River. The Gehry tower is a nine-story building, it is located at the steintor, and Goesthestrabe 13a in Hanover transport service Gehry also design a bus stop for the city. Gehry is known for all the amazing buildings he designed he is also considered a modern architectural icon and a celebrity. In 2005 film director Sydney Pollack a friend of Gehry made a documentary of him and his life, which came out on a DVD on august 22, 2006

All about his work

The Decon movement stems from a series of discussion between French philosopher Jaques Derrida and architect Peter Eisenman in which they question the utility of commonly accepted notions of structure alone in being able to define and communicate a meaning or truth about a creator’s intended definition and counterposes our preconceived notions of structure with undoing the deconstruction of that very same preconception of space and structure. It is in this criticism or deconstruction of a given construct in this case a structure that architecture finds its justification or its place of presence. In that sense, decon is often referred to as post-structuralist in nature for its ability to go beyond current modalities of structural definition. In architecture, its application tends to depart from modernism in its inherent criticism of culturally inherited givens such as societal goals and functional necessity. Because of this unlike early modernist structures, DeCon structures are not required to reflect any of his ideas. Frank Gehry Santa Monica home is an example of deconstructivist architecture. Frank’s most famous building was the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao that was opened to the public in1997. The building is made in the style of Deconstructivist. It is next to the Nervion River Balbao. The building has fish scale like designs on it. The reflection from the river gives the building an organic feeling to it. The building is made of titanium, glass, and limestone. You can find the building in Bilbao, Spain. As soon as the museum opened it became one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world.

His early years

In 1967, Frank created his own firm and called it the Frank O. Gehry and Associates. Gehry’s architectural work was primarily expressed in traditional architecture for many years. Frank experienced many financial difficulties during his firms early days. Frank expressed his creativity by re-designing his own home. He used his home for as creative launching pad. One night when Gehry was having guest at his house someone asked him why is he so creative with his home but so reserved and traditional in the execution of his architectural work. This moment is when Frank decided to take his work in a new direction.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is one Frank’s most iconic and representative work. In an interview in Harvard Design magazine Gehry explained three things he does to keep his projects on time and under budget. First he ensures that what he calls the organization of the artist will prevail during construction. His is to prevent political business interests from interfering with the design and achieve a result close as possible to the original design drawings. Secondly, he has a detailed and realistic cost estimate before proceeding with a building. Thirdly, Frank maintains a close relationship with area builders to ensure his cost is met.
Frank Gehry also designed the wristwatch marketed by Fossil. Instead of a standard clock face, Gehry’s watch displays a digital text of the way a person might speak the time aloud. In 2004, Frank designed a bottle for Wyborowa vodka. He also designed jewelry for Tiffany & Co, signifying his own unique departure from mainstream architectural practice in his willingness to practice in other artistic endeavours as well.
Frank is working with different textures and lighting, incorporating these into the framework of his usual approach. He is incorporating these ideas in new projects, including a small office complex on the west side of Manhattan. Frank Gehry is currently working on the Barclays Center, the NBA arena for the New Jersey Nets. Located in Brooklyn, New York, it is planned to open by 2010. Also it will seat about 18, 000 people.

frank gehry the beginning by jasmine

Frank Gehry


Frank Owen Gehry born as Ephraim Owen Gehry on February 28, 1929. He was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Gehry was born into a Jewish family, as a little boy his grandmother Caplan was a big part of his life. She encouraged him to make small cities out of scraps of wood. As he got older in 1947 he moved to California and got a job driving a delivery truck, and studied at Los Angeles City College eventually to graduate from the University of Southern California’s School of Architecture.
Later after graduating college in 1954 Gehry took some time away from architecture. Frank worked in the service for the U.S. Army, he studied city planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Still being called Frank Goldberg, got married to Anita Snyder and she made him change his name to Frank Gehry. They had two daughters together. Then they all moved to Paris where he worked in the office of Andre Remondet. He studied work by LeCorbusier and Balthazar Neumann. He was attracted to the sculptures and art in Europe and Paris.
When Gehry and his family returned to Los Angeles, Gehry started his own firm. In the mid-1960s he divorced Anita and in the mid -1970s he remarried a woman named Berta. They had two sons and are still together today. Being a hockey fan as a kid growing up in Canada Gehry started a hockey league in his office. Sadly he doesn’t play in the league anymore. In 2004 Frank Gehry designed the World Cup of Hockey.
Frank Gehry spent a lot of years working in traditional architecture. Frank worked for the firms of Pereira and Luckman, Victor Gruen Associates, and Andre Remondet