Frank Gehry

-Born in Toronto

-Moved to Los Angeles with family in 1947.

-Became us citizen

-First architecture course on a hunch

-First he found himself lack of skill as a draftsman.

-He won scholarships to the University of Southern California.

-Graduated in 1954-degree in architecture.

-Gehry went to work full time for the notable Los Angeles firm

-He was the student of victor gruen .

-He had to go and do military service. 1 Year in United States army.

-He then entered the Harvard graduate school of design (studied city planning) he did not finish his course and went back to Los Angeles.

-Joined Pereira and Luckman firm before returning to Victor Gruen firm again.

-In 1962, he established his own firm. Known as Gehry Partners, LLP

-He worked in the established international style. Years after he began to look for an opportunity to express a more personal vision in his work.

-He designed and built some furniture using corrugated cardboard stacked together.he line of furniture is called Easy edges.

-He built imaginative houses for a number of artist friends eg Ruscha in the 1970s

-His larger works were conventional buildings such as the rouse company headquarters in Columbia, Maryland, and the Santa Monica place shopping mall.

-He rebuilt his own home. He called “A dumb little house with charm” it is a new style of domestic building. He showed his house around.

-He took common, unlovely elements of American home building, such as chain link fencing, corrugated aluminium and unfinished plywood, and used them as flamboyant expressive elements, while stripping the interior walls of the house to reveal the structural elements.

my oppinion:

His designs are fascinating. The materials he uses for his machetes are all recyclable materials. One of his techniques that he uses is stacking and repetition. This is a great technique to use when you are designing a household item or a striking building. One of my favourite pieces that he designed was the chair that had a side view looking like the river nile.The repetition and the stacking of the material he uses makes the chair extremely strong and compacted. The object would stay no matter what the shape is.what i would say is although his designs are not truely ergonimic,the use of materials and shape made the objects stand out and be special.