Gehry Buildings.
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Photo: Philipp Schiwek |
Frank Gehry, born in Toronto in 1929, is the leading exponent of deconstructivism. He studied at the University of Southern California and at the Yale Graduate School of Design architecture and city planning.
Famous chef d’oeuvres of Gehry are the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao or the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. In Dusseldorf the Neuer Zollhof buildings by Frank Gehry are located in the Medienhafen in Dusseldorf.
These three buildings are one of Dusseldorf’s most well known landmarks. Materials like plywood, corrugated iron, and corrugated board were used in the construction from 1996 to 1999. Characteristic of Gehry’s style are angled flats, canting rooms, reciprocal forms and broken geometry. Creations by Gehry can be found in the United States, Germany, France, Canada, Switzerland, Spain, Scotland and the Czech Republic. In 2005 Sydney Pollack documented the working of this great architect in the movie “Sketches of Frank Gehry”.