Tag: Frank Gehry

  • A Post-Modern Renaissance Rooted in Tradition

    Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design Museum of Arts and Design, New York City 19 March–7 July 2013

  • Richard Serra in London

    Latterly, in the last quarter of 2008, their young architect David Kohn was involved, on site, in raising the actual new-built height of the internal volume of the spacious new gallery off Kings Cross to match the size of Serra’s…

  • Barbara Kruger Site Specific Installation

    Caught in the back and forth flow of the gaze. “… the AGO has commissioned renowned American artist Barbara Kruger to create a large-scale public installation to be displayed along the Gallery’s signature glass skirt, which spans an entire city…

  • Brad Pitt’s Initiative. Making It Right: New Houses at New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward

    Brad Pitt’s Make it Right housing neighbourhood reconstruction initiative for New Orleans is not the first ever solution to follow a catastrophe, but it is the most ingenious

  • Steven Holl: America’s Best Architect

    The USA has lately found and recognised the real successor to Frank Gehry in a new generation. This is New York-based artist Steven Holl. It has been some while in coming, but with the opening in June 2007 of the…

  • Frank Gehry – Walt Disney Concert Hall

    Computer-Aided Three-Dimensional Interactive Application (CATIA) unlocks the magic that enables Frank Gehry’s unique constructions actually to get built. Before computer-aided design, none of this would have been possible. So Gehry’s architecture is essentially of the 21st century

  • Frank Gehry – Maggie’s Centre, Dundee

    On the western, landscaped edge of Dundee city, overlooking the Tay Estuary, Frank Gehry’s very latest work stands complete. It exists mindful of particular place-related precedent, of shrines or temples from pre-history or early classical periods. But this gem of…