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Urban Anthropology and the Architect Frank Gehry

By Laurie Milne June 23, 2016 - 11:04am

Students enrolled in Anthropology 394: Urban Anthropology may find the following volume of interest: Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015) by Paul Goldberger.  Goldberger discusses the full range of Gehry's work from his early houses constructed of plywood and chain-link fencing to  the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.  Of relevance to urban anthropology is the author's exploration of Gehry's approach  to designing  buildings that  are integrated into their respective urban settings.    Gehry connected art to technology, design to history, materials to industry.  This volume has been described as "the saga of the architectural milieu of the twenty-first century".  It is a wonderful read!