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Frank Gehry An Architecture of Joy

Pritzker Architecture Prize Winners • Documentary, Special Interest, 01-Jan-2000

Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy illustrates the unique intertwining of art and architecture throughout Gehry's spectacularly eclectic career. In this portrait, Gehry explores his work of the 1990's including The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Frederick R. Weisman Museum in Minneapolis, as well as his first European commission, the EMR Communication and Technology Center in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany. Seeing himself as an artist first, Gehry discusses his early relationships in the art world and how sculpture, painting and small scale work has influenced his architectural style. Like Rauschenberg, Johns, and Warhol, he has introduced "bad taste" into his concepts, while keeping himself outside of the contemporary dialogue between modernism and post-modernism. He has translated the vocabulary of contemporary art into an architectural language of his own, disobeying the rules of his profession and questioning its historic conventions.

Tags
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Winston Guest House, Vitra Design Museum, EMR Communication and Technology Center (Bad Oeynhausen), creativity, Corbusier, Wright, Mies van der Rohe, architecture, Freud, the unconcious, Brancusi, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra, geometric shape, sculpture, sketching, context, landscape, location, culture
Cast
Frank Gehry Self
Rolf Fehlbaum Self
Barbara Jakubeit Self
Ellsworth Kelly Self
Lyndel King Self
Peter Lewis Self
Manfred Ragati Self
Nina Ruge Self
Richard Serra Self
Rick Smith Self
Bernd Thiemann Self
Crew
Michael Blackwood director
Michael Blackwood producer

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