Frank Gehry

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Frank Gehry by Mind Map: Frank Gehry

1. Profile

1.1. Contemporary architect

1.2. Interest from young

1.2.1. Build cities out of scraps of wood

1.2.2. Build imaginary houses and futuristic cities

1.2.3. Drawing

1.3. Notable aspects of career

1.3.1. Academia

1.3.2. Budgets

1.3.2.1. Takes clients' budgets seriously

1.3.2.2. Made sure the costs were realistic and detailed

1.3.3. Celebrity status

1.3.3.1. Modern architectural icon

1.3.3.2. "Starchitect"

1.3.3.3. Gained attention in the 1972

1.3.3.3.1. 'Easy Edges' cardboard furniture

1.3.3.4. Exposures

1.3.3.4.1. Apple's 'Think Different' Pictorial Ad Campaign

1.3.3.4.2. The Simpsons' "The Seven-Beer Snitch" episode

1.3.3.4.3. Arthur TV show

1.3.3.4.4. Designed a hat for Lady Gaga

1.3.4. Documentary

1.3.4.1. 'Sketches of Frank Gehry'

1.3.4.1.1. Photography of buildings designed by Gehry

1.3.5. Fish and furniture

1.3.5.1. Inspired by fish

1.3.5.1.1. Works

1.3.5.1.2. '3 hundred million years before man was fish'

2. Adaptations

2.1. Runway collections

2.1.1. Marchesa 'Spring/Summer 2011'

2.1.2. Guy Laroche 'Spring/Summer 2013'

2.1.3. Emporio Armani 'Fall 2013'

2.1.4. Derek Lam 'Fall 2007'

3. Architectural Style

3.1. Deconstructivism

3.1.1. Do not follow 'form follows function' rule

3.1.2. Not required to reflect specific social or universal ideas

3.2. Unfinished and crude

3.3. California "funk"

3.3.1. Art movement in the 1960s and early 1970s

3.4. Criticism

3.4.1. Waste structural resources

3.4.2. Functionless forms

3.4.3. Designed without accounting for the local climate

3.5. Radically sculptured

3.6. Organic contours

4. Works

4.1. Architecture

4.2. Jewelry

4.2.1. Designed for Tiffany and co.

4.3. Household items

4.4. Sculptures

4.4.1. Designed glass bottle for Wyborowa Vodka

4.5. Furniture

4.5.1. First collection 'Easy Edges' (1969 to 1973)

4.5.2. Another line 'Bentwood Furniture' (1992)

4.5.3. Designed for enlisted soldiers