Frank Gehry
Subtitle: the Fondation Louis Vuitton
By: edited by Frédéric Migayrou
Contributors: Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris, France)
Publisher: Éditions HYX
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Orléans
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9782910385903
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Exhibitions; Design and construction; Architectural photography; Arts facilities; Art museums; Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris, France)
Other titles: Fondation Louis Vuitton
Description: This beautifully illustrated book (350 photos, sketches, maps, and works of art), developed under the direction of Frédéric Migayrou, shows the various stages of the project's development. Through their in-depth essays, leading art and architecture critics and historians analyze Gehry's building, destined to become a landmark in the history of Paris.0From "The creative autonomy of form" by Horst Bredekamp to "The architecture of the embrace" by James S. Ackerman, the building, a "miracle of engineering prowess and architectural technique " (Irving Lavin) evokes "a materialized utopia, an island floating above the city ... a hybrid of expressionist spontaneity and technological complexity" ... All of Gehry's art consisting "of placing architecture in a state of indetermination from which the form escapes to be immediately reconfigured in a multiplicity of new images". (Frédéric Migayrou).0.
Notes: "Book published on the occasion of the inaugural exhibition of the Fondation Louis Vuitton."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Bernard Arnault; title: Foreword / Jean-Paul Claverie; title: Interview with Frank Gehry / Frédéric Migayrou; title: Sketches; title: Naumachia / Frédéric Migayrou; title: Conception; title: Models; title: A ship sailing from within / Horst Bredekamp; title: Drawings; title: A dialogue between art and history / James Sloss Ackerman; title: The factory; title: Fog magus / Irving Lavin; title: The construction site; title: Interiors; title: The spirit of the place / Sébastien Cherruet.