Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry is a Canadian architect who was born on February 28, 1929. A wide variety of his buildings are famously known for being great tourist attractions, including his private residence.

A couple of Frank Gehry's most well known buildings include the Guggenheim Museum, Louis Vuitton Foundation, 8 Spruce Street, and the EMP Museum.

Frank Gehry did a few things before he finally decided to become an architect, he was a truck driver and a radio announcer, then he decided to go to Harvard to study city planning which would allow him to be an architect. 



Frank Gehry also made a line of furniture and jewellery but his most famous production line was called "Easy Edge" and this consisted of furniture which was constructed out of card that had been glued together in alternating directions. The Wiggle Side Chair was one of his most successful pieces of furniture and one of his most famous. The production of Easy Edge furniture didn't last because the prices did not conform to his philosophy that furniture should be affordable. Gehry then decided to abandon furniture designing and focus on just architecture.



 Examples of Gehry's buildings:







Gehry's architectural techniques are said to be in the style of Deconstructivism. The way Gehry's architecture is, his materials such as corrugated metal allows Gehry's buildings to show an unfinished and a raw essence of beauty. The fact that Gehry's buildings continued and consistently had the essence of raw beauty, his works were and still are very distinct and recognisable .

I personally like Gehry's style of architecture due to the fact that it is unique and it is different, it does not abide to the way society sees and says buildings  or anything should be. He does things the way he wants to and this is why he is as successful as he is today.