Frank O. Gehry, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-3-930698-32-5
Verlag: Edition Axel Menges

Buch, Englisch, Band 32, 56 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 280 mm x 300 mm

Reihe: Opus

There is no doubt at all that Gehry’s Guggenheim

Museum in Bilbao is one of the most spectacular

buildings of recent years. As the central element

in Bilbao’s comprehensive urban renewal programme

the building raised high expectations

from the outset. Its site between river, railway,

bridge and new town makes it a symbol of the

Basque metropolis that can be seen from a considerable

distance. It is both the heart of the city

and a testbed for the arts, representing both public

presence and artistic change.

The process by which it was created demonstrates

the most recent advances in computeraided

design and in material manufacture. For a

long time design and building were broken down

into a large number of individual components.

Gehry’s museum unifies this process and is thus

able to create fluent links between architectural

detail and urban impact.

But the innovations do not stop at technology,

they also extend to the way in which the interior

spaces are shaped. These are extremely varied

in form, as the museum is not so much designed

to house a permanent exhibition of the collection,

but to enable artists to create installations. In contrast

with the usual neutral gallery spaces Gehry

offers a whole variety of stages for artistic presentation.

His artist friends have risen to the challenge

of his architecture and are experimenting

very successfully with this new way of showing

their work to the public.

Zielgruppe

Touristen, Architekten, Designer, Kunsthistoriker, Architekturkritiker, Romanisten

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Forster, Kurt W

Richter, Ralph

Über Autor(innen)

Richter, Ralph
Ralph Richter studied at
the Fachhochschule in Dortmund. He rapidly
made a name for himself as an architectural photographer.
He has photographed buildings by
Santiago Calatrava, Coop Himmelblau, Norman
Foster, Volker Gienke, Uwe Kiessler and Alessandro
Mendini. He also took the photographs for
Opus 21: Norman Foster, Commerzbank, Frankfurt
am Main.

Forster, Kurt W
Kurt W. Forster studied art history, literature
and archaeology at the universities in Berlin,
Munich and Zurich, rounding out his studies in
Florence and London. He taught at Yale University
(1960–67), Stanford University (1967–82)
and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(1982–84). He was the first director of the newly
established Getty Center for the History of Art
and the Humanities in Santa Monica (1984–92),
where he inaugurated a broadly based programme
of research and publications. After that
he taught at the Eidgenössische Technische
Hochschule in Zurich (1992–99). Before achieving
his most recent position as director of the Accademia
di Architettura in Mendrisio he was director
of the Canadian Centre for Architecture in
Montreal (1999–2001).