Frank Gehry An Architecture of Joy (2000)

Frank Gehry An Architecture of Joy illustrates the unique intertwining of art and architecture throughout Gehrys spectacularly eclectic career In this portrait Gehry explores his work of the 1990s including The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Frederick R Weisman Museum in Minneapolis as well as his first European commission the EMR Communication and Technology Center in Bad Oeynhausen Germany Seeing himself as an artist first Gehry discusses his early relationships in the art world and how sculpture painting and small scale work has influenced his architectural style Like Rauschenberg Johns and Warhol he has introduced bad taste into his concepts while keeping himself outside of the contemporary dialogue between modernism and postmodernism He has translated the vocabulary of contemporary art into an architectural language of his own disobeying the rules of his profession and questioning its historic conventions