10/11/2021 0 Comments Frank Gehry Residence
Besides, Gehry will extract an elegant revenge against France’s sceptical president by dominating the French cultural scene this autumn. The first major European retrospective of his work is to open at Centre Pompidou in After almost 15 years and considering different locations and designs, Frank O. Gehry has now completed and moved into his new private home in Santa Monica.Its central drum echoes the plan of the Roman amphitheatre. On this site, Gehry’s tower interweaves harmoniously with seven 19th-century factory structures.A place of creation and experimentation, the twisted six-storey tower, on top of the massive glass drum which forms its base, houses exhibition galleries, project spaces and the LUMA’s research and archive facilities, alongside workshop and seminar rooms.Gehry has talked about drawing inspiration from local geological formations, Roman architecture, and the colours of the sky in Van Gogh’s paintings: “We wanted to evoke the local, from Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ to the soaring rock clusters you find in the region. The complex is the brainchild of Swiss collector Maja Hoffmann who in 2004 established The LUMA Foundation in Zurich, intending to support artistic creation and explore the relationships between art, environmental issues, human rights, education, and research.Launched in 2013, LUMA Arles is an interdisciplinary creative campus where art, culture, science, and research coexist, located on the Parc des Ateliers, a former railway wasteland. Originally built in 1920 and purchased by Gehry in 1977, the house features an asymmetrical structure in glass and corrugated steel wrapped around the original building.He could not have imagined, back then, that the irregular angles, audacious edges, and unpretentious materials of his house would bring him to notoriety in what turned out to be one of the most fortunate midlife crises and career shifts in the history of modern architecture.Gehry’s most recent fatigue (it took over a decade to build), the LUMA Arles tower has recently opened its doors in South France as the centrepiece of the LUMA Arles campus. Among his designs, however, Gehry’s most notable work proved to be the renovation of his own Santa Monica residence (19). Beginning his career in Los Angeles at Victor Gruen Associates and then Pereira and Luckman, after a short period spent in Paris, he returned to California and started his own firm in 1962.With his relatively successful practice, he spent years designing hardly more than run-of-the-mill commercial projects: private apartments, offices, and malls.
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