* Residential Architecture: Video: Gehry Residence by Frank Gehry, 2012 AIA Twenty-five Year Award Recipient

Residential Architecture: Video: Gehry Residence by Frank Gehry, 2012 AIA Twenty-five Year Award Recipient: “..The AIA sat down with famed architect Frank Gehry – recipient of the 2012 Twenty-five Year Award – to discuss his eccentric Santa Monica home that has enormously influenced both theory and practice over the last 25 to 35 years. In the late 1970s, Frank Gehry transformed an existing Dutch colonial home in a quiet Southern California neighborhood into a controversial symbol of deconstructivism by surrounding it with an unconventional new addition. As the AIA describes, “The exposed structure, chaotic fusion of disparate materials, and aggressive juxtaposition of old and new communicate a sense of real-time formal evolution and conflict, as if the building were dynamically, violently creating itself with found objects.”..Towards the end of the video, Gehry advises students to “learn to be yourself and be curious about what is going on around you and respond to it.”  Wonderful three minute video via AIA National..

See our previous post on the Gehry Residence by Frank Gehry: Residential Architecture: Gehry Residence by Frank Gehry.

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image: netropolitan.org; article: Rosenfield , Karissa . “Video: Gehry Residence, 2012 AIA Twenty-five Year Award Recipient” 25 May 2012.ArchDaily. <http://www.archdaily.com/238247&gt;

* Residential Architecture: Gehry Residence by Frank Gehry

Residential Architecture: Gehry Residence by Frank Gehry: “..When Frank Gehry and his wife bought an existing house in Santa Monica, California, the neighbors did not have the slightest idea that the corner residence would soon be transformed into a symbol of deconstructivism. Gehry, however, knew something had to be done to the house before he moved in. His solution was a bold one in the 1970′s that involved the “balance of fragment and whole, raw and refined, new and old” and would strike up controversy..Gehry actually did keep the existing house almost completely in tact, but not in a conventional manner. The Dutch colonnial home was left in tact and the new house was built around it. Holes were made, walls were stripped, torn down and put up, and the old quiet house became a loud shriek of contemporary style among the neighboring mansions–literally. Neighbors hated it, but that did not change the fact that the house was a statement of art entwined with architecture..”  Inspirational in its philosophy, kaleidoscopic in it realisation..

See our other posts on work by Frank Gehry: Architecture: Opus Hong Kong by Frank Gehry, Frank Gehry’s Riotously Sculptural $100-million Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas Opens and New York by Gehry Now Complete.

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image: © netropolitan.org; article: Perez , Adelyn . “Gehry Residence / Frank Gehry” 05 Jul 2010. ArchDaily. <http://www.archdaily.com/67321&gt;