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 Gehry.And its cost is 250.000.000 euros.

FRANK GEHRY

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. He works with volumes and materials on the facade.

MORE ABOUT FRANK GEHRYWhen he returned from France to Los Angeles, he

worked alone, creating his style of architecture, getting recognition national and internationally.

Frank Gehry

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Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain.

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Dancing House, Praga, Czech Republic.

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Museum of art Weisman, Mediapolis, U.S.E.