Frank Gehry Masterpieces is the most comprehensive single-volume survey of Gehry's built work, presenting forty of his most significant buildings through 480 illustrations produced in collaboration with Cahiers d'Art and written by architect and critic Jean-Louis Cohen.
About This Book
No architect of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries has reshaped the urban skyline with such kinetic force as Frank Gehry. This authoritative volume traces his architectural language across forty projects — from the domestic scale of his own Santa Monica home to the civic grandeur of the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. Gehry's material restlessness is documented in full: cheap mass-produced cladding sits alongside space-age titanium, while 3D computer modelling enabled the fluid, crumpling forms that define his practice. Jean-Louis Cohen brings critical rigour to each work, making this an essential reference for architects, historians, and students of contemporary architectural design.
Key Features
- 400 pages of exterior and interior architectural photography and illustration, comprising 480 images produced in collaboration with Cahiers d'Art
- Text by architect and critic Jean-Louis Cohen
- Notable projects include the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Fondation Louis Vuitton Paris, Beekman Tower New York, the "Binoculars Building" Los Angeles, the "Dancing House" Prague, and Luma Arles
- Published by Thames & Hudson, ISBN 9782080248503
What You'll Discover
- How Gehry's use of 3D computer modelling as a design tool — rather than a representational one — made his curvilinear, movement-driven forms buildable at scale
- The material palette behind the work: the counterintuitive pairing of industrial, inexpensive cladding with high-performance titanium across different commissions
- The full geographic and typological range of Gehry's output, from residential and cultural buildings in the United States to civic landmarks across Europe
- Jean-Louis Cohen's critical framework for reading Gehry's subversion of conventional structural and formal norms across four decades of practice
About the Author
Jean-Louis Cohen is an architect and critic whose writing engages closely with the history and theory of modern architecture. He contributes the essays and project texts that structure this volume's critical survey of Gehry's forty most significant works.
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 400
- Dimensions: 252 x 315 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9782080248503
- Publisher: Thames & Hudson
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and students of contemporary architectural design, cultural historians interested in deconstructivism and parametric form, and collectors seeking a definitive monograph on one of the most influential built practices of the last fifty years.