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An insightful examination of the social planning and the individual subjectivity of the architecture of Frank Gehry.
Frank Gehry: The City and Music is the result of a unique collaboration between the architect and leading critic Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe. The book focuses on two projects, Gehry's unrealized proposal for the rehabilitation of Berlin's Museum Island and his soon to be completed Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles,while discussing other projects such as the Pavilion for the Performing Arts in Concord, California, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, and the Experience Music Project in Seattle. Gehry's much debated relationship to Minimalist sculpture, uses of new building materials and attitude to tradition, are discussed with regard to his belief in architecture as a democratic practice which is at once practical and expressive.
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe is a painter and art critic, whose publications include Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime, Beyond Piety: Critical Essays on the Visual Arts 1986-1993, and Immanence and Contradiction: Recent Essays on the Artistic Device.He has been awarded National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in painting, and in 1998 was presented with the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism by the College Art Association. He teaches in the graduate school at Art Center, Pasadena, California.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #2034136 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 148 pages

Review
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe challenges us with every sentence, every paragraph, and every page to see the world - and especially the work of artists and architects such as Frank Gehry - anew. Gilbert-Rolfes text is essential reading. Richard Koshalek, Director Emeritus, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe powerfully demonstrates the significance of Frank Gehrys architecture. Frank Gehry: The City and Music positions Gehrys mature work as an exercise in liberation, an adventurous experiment with architectural materials, which nonetheless resonates with the clients programme. Bruce Mau, Creative Director, Bruce Mau Design

An understanding of the demands, be they political, economiic or functional, make one admire all the more the integrity and tenacity of the architect. It is extraordinary to read about Gehry's research into, for example, the world of acoustics, the complexity of which sets the experts themselves at odds.
–Michaela Crimmin, RSA Head of Arts, RSA Journal, January 6, 2002

About the Author
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe is a painter and art critic, whose publications include Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime, Beyond Piety: Critical Essays on the Visual Arts 1986-1993, and Immanence and Contradiction: Recent Essays on the Artistic Device. He has been awarded National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in painting and criticism as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship in painting, and in 1998 was presented with the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism by the College Art Association. He teaches in the graduate school at Art Center, Pasadena, California.