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스페인 빌바오의 구겐하임 미술관, 7년 만에 완공된 이 건축물의 설계자이자 세계적 건축가인 프랭크 O. 게리가 흥미진진하게 털어놓는 자신의 건축 이야기이다. 편집자인 밀드레드 프리드먼의 포괄적인 소개의 글과 건축 비평가인 마이클 소킨의 예리한 평론도 함께 들어 있으며, 각 프로젝트의 진행 과정을 담은 사진들도 수록되었다.

책에는 총 24개의 프로젝트가 소개되며, 그중 대표적인 것으로는 캘리포니아 주 베니스에 있는 치애트/데이 본사 건물, 애너하임에 있는 디즈니랜드 행정 건물, 독일 바일암라인에 있는 비트라 디자인 박물관과 공장, 스페인 빌바오의 구겐하임 미술관 등이 있다.

정사각형 건물에서 탈피해 건축물에 파격적인 곡선을 구사하는 한편, 상상을 초월하는 외장재를 사용해 건축계에 늘 파란을 일으키는 프랭크 게리는 초년병 시절 일화를 비롯해 건물을 지을 때마다 터지는 우여곡절, 정상의 자리에 올라설 수 있었던 계기 등을 마치 소설처럼 흥미진진하게 풀어냈다.

With the completion of the celebrated Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, architect Frank O. Gehry has entered the pantheon of twentieth-century masters. In this wholly unique new book, Gehry himself offers extensive and illuminating commentary on various aspects of the proceses involved in developing his revolutionary designs, including his influences, clients, use of materials, and new technologies.
"Gehry Talks: Architecture + Process" documents all of his new work of this decade, tracing his evolution from a southern California architect known for his idiosyncratic use of materials and collaboration with local artists, to an international figure whose fluid, hitherto undreamt-of forms surge beyond the aesthetic and technical constraints of the twentieth century. From the titanium-wrapped curves of the Guggenheim Bilbao to the binocular facade of the Chiat-Day Headquarters in California, his innovative structural ideas evoke a sense of freedom and spontaneity while, at the same time, displaying the utmot control. Unbound by guidelines of symmetry or the grid's delineation, his structures spring forth, engaged in a seemingly limitless play of ideas--ever-changing in both the multitudinous combinations of shapes suggested by the form and the depth of the conceptual associations implied by the design. Fish and snake motifs birl upon his buildings' rippling surfaces, while light follows the asymmetrical trajectories of their metallic folds. Though controversial and daring, his works always possess an elegance that lends warmth and humane scope to each project, regardless of the level of innovation--as evinced in contexts as varying as the complicated, and unrealized, plan of theLewis House in Lyndhurst, Ohio or the clarity of the idea behind the Ustra office building in Hannover, Germany.
This generously illustrated presentation features thirty-three projects, including the Chiat-Day Headquarters in Venice, California; the Team Disneyland Administration Building in Anaheim, California; the Vitra Furniture Museum and Factory in Weil am Rhein, Germany; the Entertainment Center at Euro-Disney (now called Disneyland Paris); the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California; and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. Editor Mildred Friedman and architecture critic Michael Sorkin provide insightful essays.

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CONTENTS

preface / mildred friedman = 8

the reluctant master / mildred friedman = 11

frozen light / michael sorkin = 29

commentaries by frank gehry : then and now = 43

 gehry vita = 293

 acknowledgments = 295

 index = 296

 illustration credits = 300