The Gold Fish
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ARCHITECTURE IN BARCELONA
IES BARCELONA CONGRES
Pablo Ortiz Figueroa
MY BUILDING IS THEGOLD FISH
BASIC INFORMATION
Kind of building: sculpturePlace: Olympic Port is nexto to hotel Arts and Torre MapfreDesigner: Frank GehryYear: 1992Material: copper
FRANK GEHRY
Year: 1929Place: Toronto – Canada1954: Harvard University → Urbanism1961: travell to France → study French
architecure (like: Le Corbusier and others, and romanic churches).
MORE ABOUT FRANK GEHRY
He thinks that architecture is an art. He works with volumes and materials on the facade. When he returned from France to Los Angeles, he worked alone, creating his style of architecture, getting recognition national and internationally.
FRANK GEHRY AND THE GOLD FISH
History:Before, he studied the liberty of the fish
body. In 1980 he did similar objects like Gold Fish. When Barcelona people charge to him an sulpture for the Olympics, he proposed a big structre of metal that with it reflections marks the begining of Olympic Port.
FRANK GEHRY AND THEGOLD FISH
• The project:• It was the first project that he used the
computer to design him difficults structures curvinilears and asymmetrical forms that gave his a lot of fame.
• The Gold Fish is a grid of metal wires intersecting.
• Gehry descrive her works 'fish' because although the skin is, the inside doesn't change.
MORE BUILDINGS OF FRANK GEHRY
Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain.
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• Gehry Tower, Hanover, Germany.
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Dancing House, Praga, Czech Republic.
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Museum of art Weisman, Mediapolis, U.S.E.