Building art : the life and work of Frank Gehry / Paul Goldberger.

"From one of our foremost architectural writers: an engaging, brilliant exploration of the life and work of the most famous architect of our time, and one of the few architects ever to be widely admired by both critics and the general public.This first full-fledged critical biography of Frank Gehry...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Goldberger, Paul (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Gehry, Frank O., > 1929- Architects > United States > Biography. Architects. United States. Biographies.
Genre:	Biography. Biographies.
Physical Description:	xii, 513 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Variant Title:	Life and work of Frank Gehry.
Format:	Book

Contents:

Night of the supermoon
Canada
To life in the sun
Becoming an architect
Dealing with authority
Discovering Europe
Restart in Los Angeles
Independence
Easing the edges
A house in Santa Monica
Fish and other shapes
Onto the world stage
Walt Disney Concert Hall : the first movement
The Guggenheim and Bilbao
Walt Disney Concert Hall : second movement
New York : trials and triumps
Frank at eighty
The legacy of technology
From Dwight Eisenhower to Louis Vuitton
An archive and a legacy
In Paris, looking back and looking forward.