Frank Gehry on his Inventive Influences (Fashionable Structure in Los Angeles)

Architect Frank Gehry discusses his architectural coaching, working for William Pereira, and the contrivance the experimental art scene of Los Angeles in the 1960s and ’70s sparked his creativity. He also reflects on the extraordinary manufacture of his interior most space in Santa Monica.

Special thanks to: Frank Gehry and Joyce Shin, Gehry Companions, LLP; Ethel Pattison, the Flight Route Learning Heart of Southern California; Dana Smith, Johnson Fain; Julian Wasser; Gemini G.E.L.; Tim Toll road-Porter.

Photography: Courtesy of Gehry Companions, LLP; LAX Photo Archives at the Flight Route Learning Heart of Southern California; Courtesy of Johnson Fain; Courtesy and © Julian Wasser; Larry Bell Studio; Joe Goode Studio; Courtesy Ed Moses and Frank Gehry; Charles Brittin Papers, courtesy of the Getty Research Institute, © J. Paul Getty Belief; Courtesy Billy Al Bengston; Courtesy Sidney Felsen and Stanley Grinstein; © and courtesy Tim Toll road-Porter.

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This video is section of Pacific Commonplace Time Gifts: Trendy Architecture in L.A., a Getty initiative that brings collectively native cultural establishments for a huge-ranging peek at the postwar constructed atmosphere of Los Angeles, from its notorious residential structure to its mountainous freeway community, revealing the metropolis’s pattern and ongoing world affect in contemporary techniques.

Study extra about the exhibition, Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940–1990, co-organized by the Getty Research Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum. http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/overdrive/index.html

Study extra about the initiative, Pacific Commonplace Time Gifts: Trendy Architecture in L.A.: http://www.pacificstandardtimepresents.org/