On the good ship lollipop [electronic resource] : Frank O. Gehry's Fondation Louis Vuitton / James S. Ackerman, Irving Lavin, Horst Bredekamp ; edited by Kolja Thurner ; translation from German into English, Katharina Lee Chichester, Tarek Ibrahim.

The Fondation Louis Vuitton by Frank O. Gehry rises from the Bois de Boulogne as a new landmark in the Parisian skyline. Gehry?s dynamic architecture is both glittering and multifaceted: is it a sailing vessel, an iceberg, or a sea monster? It fascinates with its wealth of references and, at the sam...

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Other Authors:	Gehry, Frank O., 1929- (Artist) Ackerman, James S. (Writer of supplementary textual content) Lavin, Irving, 1927-2019 (Writer of supplementary textual content) Bredekamp, Horst, 1947- (Writer of supplementary textual content) Thurner, Kolja (Editor) Chichester, Katharina Lee (Translator) Ibrahim, Tarek (Translator)
Language:	English
Published:	Basel : Birkhäuser, [2019]
Subjects:	Gehry, Frank O., > 1929- Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris, France) Architecture > France > Paris. Paris (France) > Buildings, structures, etc.
Online Access:	EBSCO eBooks: 2019 (EBSCO) eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2019 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:	Frank O. Gehry's Fondation Louis Vuitton
Format:	Electronic eBook

Contents:

Foreword / by Frank O. Gehry
Introduction
Gehry plays / by Kolja Thurner
The Vuitton Foundation
art, architecture, engineering / by James S. Ackerman
FOG magus
the most complicated building ever built / by Irving Lavin
Water, earth and wind
a ship sailing from within / by Horst Bredekamp
Voyage
exploring the ship, a photo essay.