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Frank Gehry: Outside in Book

After seeing pictures of buildings by the unusual French architect Le Corbusier, young Frank Gehry realized that it was possible to break away from the square box of most buildings. "That's when I threw the grid away, and said, 'Man, there's another freedom out there, and that's the place I want to be.'" As anyone who has ever seen the Gehry-designed Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, or the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington, will quickly realize, Gehry has never looked back. Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, coauthors of Chuck Close Up Close and The American Eye, among other acclaimed titles, take a look at a most remarkable architect and his work. Frank O. Gehry: Outside In is filled with provocative quotations from Gehry, which are pulled out and repeated in large, colorful type: "Life is chaotic, dangerous, and surprising. Buildings should reflect it." "I work intuitively. I just jump in and learn to swim later." The text is scintillating and informative, with side boxes giving tips on how to view buildings from an architectural point of view. There are also photographs, lots of them, of Gehry's fantastic projects, from cardboard furniture to the "Fred and Ginger" building in Prague, to fish-shaped lamps; as well as his incredibly scrawly sketches. Movement and energy are at the core of every Frank O. Gehry design; this book reflects his vigor and, happily, may inspire a new generation of rule-benders. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie CoulterRead More

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    Discover the story behind a visionary architect. "Life is chaotic. Buildings should reflect it." So says Frank O. Gehry, architect of one of the most acclaimed and influential buildings of the past century, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. Winner of more than one hundred awards for his work, Gehry has a remarkable gift for changing the ordinary into the amazing. His buildings surge with energy and movement, revealing forms never before seen in architecture. Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, award winners in their own right for their acclaimed Chuck Close, Up Close, take us into Gehry's world-from his early years in Canada as the son of Polish immigrants, to his earliest efforts at architecture, to the Guggenheim Bilbao and beyond. Strikingly designed and full of provocative sidebars as well as a glossary and a list of building locations, this is a book that anyone interested in buildings, or popular culture, or the future, will cherish.

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