Frank Gehry - Deconstructivism

Frank Gehry is a well-renown architect who has won numerous awards. He's created many greated works, but just to name a few some of his best include:

Gehry House (Gehyr's private residence) Santa Monica, CA	Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain 1997
Walt Disney Concert Hall Los Angeles, CA 1989-2004	IAC Building New York City 2007

His works are great, and with his unique style and techniques, his buildings encompass many that have come before it. He is known for being one of the most influential architects in our time. But from all the greatness and complexity of his works, it is amazing to see all his works started off from simple sketches. The film “Sketches of Frank Gehry” shows many of Gehry’s work and sums up the process of how Gehry creates his buildings from sketch to the finished product.

He does his buildings in the decontructive style. Deconstructivism is actually a branch of deconstruction. Deconstruction involves a philosophical theory that things are never certain, and things meaning something else than what they are. It questions certainty originally in the field of literary analysis. Deconstruction as an architectural style tries to break the rules on what is known to be the norm of constructing buildings. The architectural style was known to have started in the 1980s. Buildings often look contorted, broken, odd, and futuristic. I feel like this style is modern in that it looks like something that has come out of a computer – pixilated and abstract. The Deconstruction style had its influences come from the philosophical works of Jacques Derrida.