My Bryce Project

I made my building by using Bryce. Bryce is a 3D modeling program. I built it by putting together a lot of different shapes and making them the colors I used when I designed it on paper. My Building is located on Pelham Parkway in the Bronx, New York. It takes up a whole block. The bottom floor is used for lounging and eating. The middle floors are shopping centers and the top has business offices in it. The Building is going to be open to the public and has a parking area around it. The building has two fountains and two sculptures around it. It took me about two days to finish my design but I had a lot of fun doing it and seeing how it turned out in the end.

Frank Gehry Photos By Jessica Bero

The Gehry residence in Santa Monica.

The IAC Building.

Frank Gehry's famous cardboard furniture.

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

This is Frank Gehry.

Frank Gehry's biggest accomplishments and fame by: Jessica Bero

The curves of Gehry’s work have been classified as being Deconstructivist, or “DeCon” school of postmodern architecture. Gehry denies anything to do with the movement and says he has no alliance to any particular architectural movement at all. Gehry’s home in Santa Monica is considered a great example of Deconstructivist architecture. It looked as if it was drastically changed from what it was originally suppose to look like. It looked like it was done to drastically change it from its original intention of having a lot of space. Gehry is sometimes associated with what is known as the “Los Angeles” and “Santa Monica” school of architecture.
Frank Gehry is most famous for the Guggenheim Bilbao building; it has been featured in the James Bond film, The World Is Not Enough. Frank Gehry has done many other buildings but this was his most famous one. Gehry is considered a modern architectural icon and celebrity a major “starchitect”. A “starchitect” is a group of unbelievable architects that have celebrity status. Gerhy came to the public’s attention with his “Easy Edges” cardboard furniture. He has appeared in many cartoons and television shows. He has been on the show “Author”, and also on “The Simpson’s”. Steve Sample, President of the University of California, told Gehry that,” …After George Lucas, you are our most prominent graduate.” In 2005 a great film director Sydney Pollack who is a friend of Frank Gehry made a documentary about him called “ Sketches of Frank Gehry”. It was released on DVD by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on August 22,2006.

Frank Gehry and his architectural style by: Jessica Bero

Gehry is working with different lighting and textures, putting this into his usual framework. He is putting these ideas into new projects, including a small office complex on west side of Manhattan.
Frank Gehry use to work in mostly traditional style architecture. He took a chance and wanted to make something really creative like his house. That’s when he came up with the idea for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. This Building is located in Bilbao, Basque Country, and Spain. It is built near the Nervion River. It was opened to the public in 1997. It has a sculpture of a puppy by Jeff Koons in front of it. It was called one of the world’s best Deconstructivist buildings. The Building is made out of glass, titanium, and limestone. The Building used computer aided design and visualization which was used in designing the structure of the building. The Building has many curves and is unlike any other building. Its reflected panels look like fish scales. This is one other way his grandmother influenced him. These fish -like design forms, recur in Gehry's work. The curves on the building are made to appear as if they were random. The Nervion River reflects on the building giving it the appearance of organic life. The building is supposed to resemble a ship sailing on the Nervion River. The museum was opened as part of a revitalization effort for the city of Bilbao and for the city of Basque Country. Almost immediately after the building was built, it became a huge tourist attraction. It drew tourists from around the world. This Building influenced many similar buildings around the world. It is a product of the period’s technology, which was very common for Frank Gehry’s work. Computer simulations of the Building’s structure made easier to build shapes that architects early on would have found impossible to make. Frank Gehry is currently working on the Barclays center, the new NBA arena for the New Jersey Nets. It’s located in Brooklyn, New York. It is planned to open in 2010. It will be able to seat about 18,000 people.

Frank Gehry's early work and life by: Jessica Bero

In the middle of the 1960’s Anita Snyder and Frank Gehry got divorced. Then he married Berta in the 1970’s. They had two sons together. They are currently still together.
Gerhy spent many years of his life working in traditional architecture. During his firms first few years he experienced financial difficulties.
He expressed his creativity in his home that he used as a launch pad, playing with shapes and textures. Gehry had an epiphany when a guest at his house asked why his worked was so reserved and his house was so creative. So Gerhy decided to take his work to a more creative direction. The Guggenheim museum Bilbao work was known to be Gehry’s most iconic work and was thought to be the new direction of creativity he was talking about. Gehry was known for being on time and on budget in a business where delays and going over budget are common. Gerhy says there are three things he does to stay on time and to stay in budget. The first thing is to be an organized artist so they don’t have political and business interests and design a model as close to the original design as possible. The second thing is he makes sure he has a detailed and realistic estimate of what it’s going to cost. Thirdly he makes sure he keeps a close relationship with the area builders so he can meet the costs of the project.
In addition to his Architectural work, Frank Gehry designed a wristwatch that was marketed by Fossil. Instead of a regular watch, Gehry’s watch had showed digital text of the way a person might speak aloud. For instance if the time was 2:57 it would say 3 ‘til 3. Gehry has designed jewelry for Tiffany & Company. In 2004 he designed a bottle for Wyborowa Vodka. When he did this, he was showing people that he was willing to do other creative things other than architecture. Gehry has made an attempt to move away from titanium surfaces in his recent works. Gehry is working with different lighting and textures, putting this into his usual framework. He is putting these ideas into new projects, including a small office complex on west side of Manhattan.

Frank Gehry's early years by: Jessica Bero

Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry was born on February 28, 1929 as Ephraim Owen Goldberg. Gehry was part of a Jewish family and lived in Toronto Ontario. His grandmother Caplan was his encouragement. They used to build little cities of wood together. Also he would watch his grandma put live carp in a bathtub. Gehry would watch the movement and the format of the fish. Having grown up in Canada Gehry was a big fan of hockey and would later on begin a hockey league in his office. In 1947 Gehry moved to California and got a job driving a delivery truck. He was studying at Los Angeles City College. Eventually he graduated from University of Southern California’s School of Architecture in 1954. He began working full time at the Victor Gruen Associates while still in school. After he spent a year in the army he was allowed to go to Harvard Graduate School of Design to study urban planning but he left before he finished the program. When he returned to Los Angeles he worked for Pereira Luckman. Then he rejoined Gruen until the 1960’s. In 1961 Frank Gehry who was known as Frank Goldberg married Anita Snyder who he says was the one who told him to change his name and he did. They had two daughters together. Then they all moved to Paris where Gehry worked in the office of Andre Remondet. While in Europe Frank was facinated with French and Roman churches. In 1962 he returned to Los Angeles and started his own firm.

The Water Color Promenade Trip

On Friday we went to the Brooklyn Promenade. Fist we took the train to city hall. Then we walked over the brooklyn bridge and took a quick sketch of our view. After that we walked to the Brooklyn Promenade. When we got there we were allowed to pick two water colors and paint what we saw. We found this trip alot funner than some of the other treips because we had a little more freedom to do what we felt was right.