Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy

"Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy" traces the distinctive fusion of art and architecture across Gehry's wildly eclectic career. In this portrait, Gehry revisits the 1990s body of work, including the Guggenheim Museum 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. Viewing himself first and foremost as an artist, Gehry speaks about his early relationships within the art world and explains how sculpture, painting, and small-scale works have shaped his architectural language. Like Rauschenberg, Johns, and Warhol, he introduces elements of bad taste into his concepts while placing himself outside the contemporary dialogue between modernism and postmodernism. He translates the vocabulary of contemporary art into a distinct architectural idiom, defying conventional rules and challenging the historic conventions of the profession.