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Gehry Draws
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Mark Rappolt is a freelance writer and a Contributing Editor at Modern Painters. He was formerly Editor of AA Files, the journal of the Architectural Association and Senior Editor of Contemporary.

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The shapes-of the Guggenheim Museum at Bilbao, of the unbuilt New York Times headquarters, of Los Angeles's Walt Disney Concert Hall-are by now familiar, if no less wonderful and estranging. This terrific book can hardly be called a set of sketches. It brings together drawings architect Gehry has done for 29 recent projects; to look at them in series is to watch a genius think out loud, so close does the link between thought and line seem here (before the projects have been computer simulated, modeled and hyped to death). Text-wise, signs are sometimes taken as wonders, with Gehry's most banal pronouncements given the status of pull-quotes ("We work with clients a lot. I listen to the client a lot. I spend more time with clients than most people would guess"), but the drawings themselves (950!) are arresting, and they lose none of their impact when put on the page. (Mar.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

In an era when computers have a big impact on the design of buildings, it is refreshing to see how important old-fashioned pen-on-paper drawings have been to the creative process of Gehry, one of the most important contemporary architects of our time. More than 360 previously unpublished drawings and over 400 additional illustrations make up this important volume edited by Rappolt (senior editor, Contemporary magazine) and Violette, a London-based publisher and editor. In his superb essay, Horst Bredekamp compares Gehry's drawings to those by Michelangelo, Dorer, Hogarth, and Klee as a way of making the connection between Gehry the architect and Gehry the artist. Rene Daalder seeks to place Gehry's drawings in the digital age, while Rappolt makes a strong case for including drawings as a way to better understand the creative process of the artist. But the real value of this work is in the drawings (at various stages) of nearly 30 of Gehry's most important architectural projects, including the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, as well as projects yet to be completed, like the Lewis Science Library at Princeton. Recommended for all art and architecture libraries.-Herbert E. Shapiro, Empire State Coll., SUNY at Rochester Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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