Gehry is very much inspired by fish. Not only does it appear in his buildings, he created a line of jewelry, household items, and sculptures based on this motif. "It was by accident I got into the fish image," claimed Gehry. One thing that sparked his interest in fish was the fact that his colleagues are recreating Greek temples. He said, "Three hundred million years before man was fish....if you gotta go back, and you're insecure about going forward...go back three hundred million years ago. Why are you stopping at the Greeks? So I started drawing fish in my sketchbook, and then I started to realize that there was something in it."
Much of Gehry's work falls within the style of Deconstructivism. Deconstructivism, also known as DeCon Architecture, is often referred to as post-structuralist in nature for its ability to go beyond current modalities of structural definition. In architecture, its application tends to depart from modernism in its inherent criticism of culturally inherited givens such as societal goals and functional necessity. Because of this, unlike early modernist structures, DeCon structures are not required to reflect specific social or universal ideas, such as speed or universality of form, and they do not reflect a belief that form follows function. Gehry's own Santa Monica residence is a commonly cited example of deconstructivist architecture, as it was so drastically divorced from its original context, and, in such a manner, as to subvert its original spatial intention.
Gehry's work has its detractors. Some have said:
The buildings waste structural resources by creating functionless forms.
The buildings are apparently designed without accounting for the local climate.
The spectacle of a building often overwhelms its intended use, especially in the case of museums and arenas.
The buildings do not seem to belong in their surroundings "organically."
The buildings are often unfriendly towards disabled people. The Art Gallery of Ontario, for example, had most ramps removed at Gehry's behest.
Some have even described Gehry as a "one-trick pony" and an "auto-plagiarist"[6], referring to the similarity in style some of his buildings share.
- Re: Frank Gehry and Santa Monica modern artsposted on 12/21/2009
- Re: Frank Gehry and Santa Monica modern artsposted on 12/21/2009
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