ARCHITECTURE IN BARCELONA

IES BARCELONA CONGRES

Pablo Ortiz Figueroa

MY BUILDING IS...TORRE LA SAGRERA

BASIC INFORMATION

It is being built now, in Barcelona.It will be offices and a hotel; designed by Frank Gerhy.And its cost is 250.000.000 euros.

FRANK GERHY

He was born in 1929, in Toronto - Canada.He graduated in architecture in 1954 at Harvard University studied urbanism.In 1961 he traveled to France with his family (wife and two daughters) to study French architecture, like Le Corbusier and others, and Romanic churches. He thinks that architecture is an art. Is difficult for unexperienced people to understand his buildings because he works with volumes and materials on the facade.

His family is Jewish-Polish. In 1954 he changed his name because his ex-wife presured him. During a year he didn't study architecture at the university because he had to do the military service. When he returned from France to Los Angeles, he worked alone, creating his style of architecture, getting recognition national and internationaly. He likes hockey, and in 2004 he designed the Cup of the World Hockey liga.

Prizes of Frank Gerhy

* 1977 - Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture (American Academy of Arts and Letters.)

* 1989 - Pritzker Prize. * 1992 - Wolf Foundation Prize in the Arts (Architecture). * 1992 - Praemium Imperiale Award for Architecture, the "Japan

Art Association. * 1994 - Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize. * 1998 - National Medal of Arts (AEB). * 1998 - Friedrich Kiesler Prize. * 1999 - Gold Medal of the AIA, American Institute of Architects

(AEB). * 2000 - Gold Medal, Royal Institute of British Architects. * 2002 - Gold Medal for Architecture (American Academy of Arts

and Letters). * 2002 - Companion of the Order of Canada. * 2003 - Silver Medal Caldes de Malavella * 2007 - Cross of the Order of the Principality of Andorra

Charlemagne (later rejected)