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Frank Gehry The Formative Years

Pritzker Architecture Prize Winners • Documentary, Special Interest, 01-Jan-1988

Narrated by the architect himself, Frank Gehry: The Formative Years explores his long standing career and unique eye. The film looks at a number of Gehry's projects from private homes to complex public institutions, all of which echo his experimental style and vision. Works such as The Norton House, The Aerospace Museum and Loyola Law School demonstrate Gehry's eccentric and distinctive touch. The Formative Years is a survey of his beginnings when Gehry experimented with his own house in Santa Monica, giving him notoriety in the architecture scene.

Tags
Temporary Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), The Norton House, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Hay Barn (for Dick and Donna O'Neill), Santa Monica Place, Loyola Law School, Winton Guest House, The Aerospace Museum, Rebecca's (restaurant), contemporary architecture, Japanese architecture/influence, Arata Isozaki, European vs American architecture
Cast
Frank Gehry Self
Billy Al Bengston Self
Ron Davis Self
Kurt Forster Self
Kenneth Frampton Self
Thelma Gehry Self
Ed Moses Self
Ron Soskolne Self
Dr. Milton Wexler Self
Crew
Michael Blackwood director
Michael Blackwood producer
Wibke von Bonin producer
Kelley Forsyth producer

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