Publisher's Synopsis
The California architect Frank O. Gehry discusses his buildings and artist friends with the architectural historian Kurt W. Forster, founding director of the Getty Research Centre in Los Angeles. Through his collaboration with artists such as Richard Serra and Claes Oldenburg, Gehry shows that a fruitful interaction between art and architecture is indeed possible. Gehry describes the creative process that led to his Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, one of the world's first computer-generated buildings that redefines the limits of what is technically possible. With his unconventional use of material and forms, Gehry has invented an architectural language, setting standards and lending expression to the complexity of contemporary building. The dialogue is supplemented by artists' statements regarding his architecture and illustrations.
