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Frank Gehry's major lecture

Major lectures at the Collège de France

Frank Gehry - Big conference on June 22, 2017

Conversation with Jean-Louis Cohen

Thursday, June 22, 2017

Conference in English with simultaneous translation into French.

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. 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.

Franck Gehry, conversation with Jean-Louis Cohen (in English with simultaneous translation into French) - Fondation Hugot du Collège de France

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Frank Gehry

Raised in Toronto, Canada, Frank Gehry moved with his family to Los Angeles in 1947. Mr. Gehry received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California in 1954, served in the US army in 1955, then studied City Planning at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design under the GI Bill. In subsequent years, Mr. Gehry has built an architectural career that has spanned over six decades and produced public and private buildings throughout the world. His work has earned Mr. Gehry several of the most significant awards in the architectural field, including the Pritzker Prize.

Notable projects include Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California; Eight Spruce Street Residential Tower located in New York City; Opus Hong Kong Residential; Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, France; the Biomuseo in Panama; the Dr. Chau Chak Wing Building for the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia; the West Campus for Facebook in Menlo Park, California; and the Boulez Hall in Berlin.

Current projects include: residential projects in Atherton, Los Angeles, Aspen and Cabo San Lucas; King Street Development in Toronto, Ontario; the Grand Avenue Project, Los Angeles, California; La Maison LVMH - Arts, Talents, Patrimoine in Paris, France; the World Jewish Museum in Tel Aviv, Israel; Louis Vuitton in Seoul, Korea; the Los Angeles River revitalization project and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, D.C. Projects under construction include the LUMA / Parc des Ateliers in Arles, France; Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia; Facebook Campus in Menlo Park, California; and the Battersea Power Station Development in London.