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Gehry Designs:
The Lou Ruvo Brain Institute, Las Vegas
Model for the Lou Ruvo Brain Institute. Mixed media. 2006.
This is a catalog for an exhibit at the Las Vegas Art Museum December 13, 2006 – March 25, 2007 of Gehry’s models and sketches for a research center dedicated to finding the causes and cures of Alzheimer’s and Parkingson’s diseases, and ALS. It features photographs of a selection of the models, with commentary by Chris Knight, art critic of the Los Angeles Times.
Inspired by the materials used by artist friends, such as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Edward Kienholz, and Claes Oldenburg, Gehry often incorporated in his designs inexpensive or “raw” materials, such as plywood and chain link fence. Critical praise for his major projects, such as the titanium-clad Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and the recent Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, which feature the architect’s distinctive nonorthogonal undulating forms, has solidified Gehry’s position among the greatest architects of all time. Always admired for the sculptural quality of his buildings, Gehry has received numerous awards, including the Pritzker Architecture Prize and the Lifetime Achievement Award from Americans for the Arts.
Images include an unusual array of materials used by the architect to develop the concept of the building, and maps of the building’s site. The focus on a single architectural project reveals in detail Gehry’s unconventional manner of designing, in which three-dimensional models are employed in the earliest stages of development, and provides for in-depth analysis of the ways in which Gehry connects the conceptualization of the structure to the building’s primary purpose of housing facilities for research and treatment of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s and other diseases associated with aging.
68 pages. ISBN 978-0-9774861-2-0 $29.95 softcover 2006