Frank Gehry deconstructivism, from small house to world projects

Frank Gehry, a Pritzker Prize receiver, from the first home to now a wellknown postmodernist architect with the very contemporary architecture wonder in Bilbao, Seattle, Los Angeles and Minneapolis, started his first deconstructivism in his traditional Santa Monica house in the late 1970s. His carreer took it very long for him to be recognized having architectural projects that will make him one of the most distictive architect of the world.

Always starting with images in his mind, and with sketches that has strong influence in his projects, "his drawings reflect the architect's knowledge of visual arts, and their enourmous impact on his work", notes daCosta Meyer.

One of the new building that is designed by Frank Gehry is Lewis library in Princeton University. If one is standing and watching its bold, curved stainless steel roofline, he or she will know that this is designed by Gehry, which is having a distinctive look. Having glass walls that are tilted, and having walls that is painted bright blue, orange and chartreuse. The building is named for Peter Lewis, a 1955 alumnus, who is making a gift of $60 million to build this library construction.

The library is composed of stainless steel, with brick that is colored with light colors, and added with bright colors, having glass and stucco walls. It has an embossed surface that dulls the finish and diffuses the light. It also has a roofline that is 103 feet high. The second floor has a glass enclosed area that overlooks the atrium with bright colors surrounds it.

Reference and images from

http://weburbanist.com/2008/02/03/the-house-that-shaped-an-architectural-generation-frank-gehrys-first-deconstructivist-building/
http://www.interiordesign.net/article/CA6604561.html
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S20/84/49I22/index.xml?section=featured