@ ‘parc de ateliers’
(french for ‘workshop park’)
(canada)
*7 AUGUST 2010*
*age 81*
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*”modern marvels”*
(born ’28 february 1929’)
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(CC)
(“order of canada”)
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(canadian jew?)
(ala ‘saul bellow’)
(from “frank owen goldberg” —> “frank owen gehry”)
(LA architect)
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(started as ‘paper architect’)
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(HBO ‘masterclass’)
(2009?)
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*observe the ‘architectural’ process*
(semi-‘artistic’ / semi-‘functional’)
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“hollywood jews who change their last names”
“thats just ‘showbiz’, kid…”
*cue ‘the godfather’*
(‘jack woltz’ the jewish producer)
(and his feud with the greaseball ‘johnny fontaine’)
(and let’s not forget about old ‘hyman roth’)
(who probably outlived them all)
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(changed his last name in ‘1956’)
(why whyever would an architect change his last name?)
(you may ask)
(because of “anti-semitism” he encountered as child)
(‘USC undergraduate’)
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(canadian-born jewish-american architect)
(resides in “los angeles”)
(a number of his ‘buildings’ (including his private residence) have become ‘world-renowned attractions’)
which ones?
(iknow he designed ‘lewis library’ in princeton)
(my ‘headquarters’ during the ‘princeton years’)
(his works are cited as being among the most important works of ‘contemporary architecture’ in the ‘2010 world architecture survey’, which led vanity fair to label him as “the most important architect of our age”)
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*wow*…that’s a pretty strong statement, miss!*
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(gehry’s best-known works include…)
*the (titanium-clad) ‘guggenheim museum’*
(‘bilbao’ / ‘spain’)
‘walt disney concert hall’
(‘downtown los angeles’)
‘louis vuitton foundation’
(‘paris’ / ‘france’)
‘MIT ray’ + ‘maria stata center’
(‘cambridge’ / ‘massachusetts’)
‘vontz center for molecular studies’
(‘university of cincinnati’ campus)
‘experience music project’
(‘seattle’)
‘new world center’
(‘miami beach’)
‘weisman art museum’
(‘minneapolis’)
‘dancing house’
(‘prague’)
*the ‘vitra design museum’ + the museum ‘MARTa herford’*
(‘germany’)
*the ‘art gallery’ of ‘ontario’*
(‘toronto’)
*the ‘cinémathèque française’*
(‘paris’)
‘8 spruce street’
(‘new york city’)
(it was his ‘private residence’ in ‘santa monica’ (/ california), that jump-started his career)
(‘gehry’ is also the designer of the future “national dwight d eisenhower memorial”)
(‘mother’ encouraged him)
(father didn’t believe in him)
“sound familiar?*
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(“adele the architect”)
(“father of riff”)
(“hallowed be thy name….”)
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*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
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👈👈👈☜*“MODERN ARCHITECTS”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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💕💝💖💓🖤💙🖤💙🖤💙🖤❤️💚💛🧡❣️💞💔💘❣️🧡💛💚❤️🖤💜🖤💙🖤💙🖤💗💖💝💘
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥