Frank Gehry’s Minimalist Set For a 1983 Dance Performance Is Restaged for the...
Available Light, performed at Lincoln Center Courtesy Richard Termine In 1983, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles commissioned an unlikely trio of emerging artists to collaborate on a...
View ArticleFrank Gehry Reveals Design for New L.A.-Area Youth Orchestra
Exterior model view of the Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center Courtesy Gehry Partners, LLP/ Alexandra Cabri While Frank Gehry is associated with designing some of the globe’s most strikingly...
View ArticleFrank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall to Be Projected With Digital “Machine...
A rendering of the upcoming projections. Courtesy Refik Anadol Studio When Frank Gehry conceived Downtown L.A.’s shimmering Walt Disney Concert Hall, he wanted to shoot projections onto its undulating,...
View ArticleFrank Gehry–Designed Restaurant Opens at Philadelphia Museum of Art
Photo by Jeffrey Totaro, courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art A milestone was reached last month with the opening of Stir, a fine dining restaurant at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which is undergoing...
View ArticleDocumentary Film Explores How Architects Can Help Reform the Criminal Justice...
Frank Gehry and a student model from one of his studios on prison design Courtesy Frank Gehry: Building Justice Thanks to initiatives like the Art for Justice Fund, Open Society Foundations, and a slew...
View ArticleThe Philadelphia Museum of Art Reopens Public Spaces Hidden for Decades
The museum’s newly reopened North Entrance. Photo by Tim Tiebout, courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art Last month, the Philadelphia Museum of Art completed the latest phase of its Frank Gehry–designed...
View ArticleGehry Partner’s YOLA Center Brings Advanced Acoustics to a Former Bank
The Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center @ Inglewood, Edgerton Foundation Performance Hall, JWPictures Courtesy LA Phil First, it was a bank, then it was a Burger King, then it was a Science and...
View ArticleA New Book Chronicles the Turbulent History of Architectural Complexity
Zaha Hadid, Zollhof Media Park, Düsseldorf, Germany. 1989–93. IMAGE © ZAHA HADID FOUNDATION September 7, 2022 A New Book Chronicles the Turbulent History of Architectural Complexity Joseph...
View ArticleThe Broken Dreams of L.A.’s Grand Avenue
The Grand by Gehry, seen from above Disney Hall. IMAGE COURTESY WELDON BREWSTER October 28, 2022 The Broken Dreams of L.A.’s Grand Avenue Frank Gehry’s decades-in-the-making tower complex in the...
View ArticleMichael Maltzan’s Hammer Museum and the Anti-Bilbao Effect
COURTESY IWAN BAAN May 15, 2023 Michael Maltzan’s Hammer Museum and the Anti-Bilbao Effect Michael Maltzan’s gradual renovation of a Los Angeles art museum points the way to cultural architecture that...
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