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"Award-winning expressionist postmodern German-American architect Frank Gehry, creator of the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum building, discusses his approach, commenting on some of his artistic and architectonic feats. Follows the construction of his D.G. Bank Conference Centre in Berlin."
"Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy is about Gehry's work of the 1990s: his breakthroughs in architecture and the extraordinary flowering of his work during this decade. It gives insight into Gehry's approach to his architecture through visits with him to some of his key works: The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the primary example of his use of the Dassault computer program; the Frederick R. Weisman Museum in Minneapolis, which he designed before Bilbao and without the help of computers; the Vitra Museum at Weil am Rhein, his first European commission; the Energy Center at Bad Oeynhausen, a technical and cultural center; and finally, the DG Bank Conference Center at Berlin's historic Pariser Platz, a controversial building which Gehry himself thinks may be one of his best works, and whose construction we follow throughout the film."
"This film is about Gehry's work of the 1990s: his breakthroughs in architecture and the extraordinary flowering of his work during this decade. It gives insight into Gehry's approach to his architecture through visits with him to some of his key works: The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the primary example of his use of the Dassault computer program; the Frederick R. Weisman Museum in Minneapolis, which he designed before Bilbao and without the help of computers; the Vitra Museum at Weil am Rhein, his first European commission; the Energy Center at Bad Oeynhausen, a technical and cultural center; and finally, the DG Bank Conference Center at Berlin's historic Paris Square, a controversial building which Gehry himself thinks may be one of his best works, and whose construction we follow throughout the film."
"Frank Gehry sees himself as an artist first, and then as an architect, working much as an artist would. He has translated the vocabulary of contemporary art into an architectural language of his own, disobeying the rules of his profession and questioning its historic conventions. Like Rauschenberg, Johns, and Warhol, he has introduced "bad taste" into his concepts, while keeping himself outside of the contemporary dialogue between modernism and post-modernism. His stature in architecture today (though not his work) has been compared to that of the great American original Frank Lloyd Wright. Our film, Frank Gehry: an architecture of joy, is about Gehry's work of the 1990s: his breakthroughs in architecture and the extraordinary flowering of his work during this decade. It reveals Gehry's approach to his architecture through visits with him to some of his key works: The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the primary example of his use of the Dassault computer program; the Frederick R. Weisman Museum in Minneapolis, which he designed before Bilbao and without the help of computers; the Vitra Museum at Weil am Rhein, his first European commission; the Energy Center at Bad Oeynhausen, a technical and cultural center; and finally, the DG Bank Conference Center at Berlin's historic Pariser Platz, a controversial building which Gehry himself thinks may be one of his best works, and whose construction we follow throughout the film."@en
"Architect/designer Frank O. Gehry discusses various overseas projects of the 1990's: personal goals in design, influence of the site, interactions with clients, and the pros and cons of using the computer in design. Includes comments by clients and by other architects."
"The American architect most responsible for the new image of the architect as artist is documented in this film at a point in his career when he advances from experimental, private houses to complex institutions and large-scale collaborative urban projects. Our recent film FRANK GEHRY: An Architecture of Joy deals with revolutionary work of the 1990s making use of advanced computer software. The Formative Years is a survey of his beginnings when he experimented with his own house in Santa Monica, giving him notoriety in the architecture scene."
"Anàlisi feta pel propi autor de les seves obres."
"This film captures an important junction in Frank Gehry's life, the quantum leap from small commissions for private clients to large projects for corporations."@en
"This film captures an important junction in Frank Gehry's life, the quantum leap from small commissions for private clients to large projects for corporations."
"Documentary profiling the innovative architect, Frank O. Gehry."@en
"Frank Gehry and others comment upon his life, philosophy and work while viewing his architectural projects around the United States."@en