Contemporary Design

Frank Gehry is one of the most well-known Deconstructivists. Deconstructivism is postmodern architecture that began in the 1980s. Not only has Gehry designed some of the most amazing buildings during this design movement, but he has received many awards for his work. 

Gehry House

One of his most famous works is actually his own house in Los Angeles, California. It was renovated from 1978-1988 and was originally built as a bungalow home in the 1920s. He wanted to explore new options with the materials he was already using. He chose to wrap the house in a new material but still have the old material showing. Most of the neighbors were not happy having such an odd looking home in their neighborhood.

Guggenheim Museum

Another one of his famous pieces is the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. When presented with the project, Gehry was told to make it daring an innovative. One thing that really stands out are all the curves. Gehry wanted this all to be random, and used them mostly to catch light. The museum is made of glass, titanium, and limestone.

The main goal during this design period was to use materials in ways that we normally wouldn't use them, to make shapes that we normally wouldn't see on buildings, and to make pieces of art out of buildings. You can see in this two other buildings that are similar to Gehry's pieces, that all architects have the same concept in mind.