Few designers have so transformed the practice of architecture in recent decades as Frank Gehry, whose work has redefined the very notion of the building.
The lecture analyzed in detail the corpus of his major projects, from the earliest, imagined from 1954 onwards, to the most recent, captured through the wide range of means employed, from the drawings systematically employed to explore and refine his ideas, to the models and computer models, of which he was a pioneer.
Gehry's innovations have been interpreted as responses to the urban condition of Los Angeles, which initially inspired them, and to the concerns of contemporary art. Their roots in a reflection on city and landscape, and their sometimes hidden functionality, were brought to light. The genealogy of the projects has been reconstructed on the basis of thousands of drawings and hundreds of models preserved in the architect's archives.