sketches of a great architect... posted at 02:07 PM Earlier this week, I met up with Cheng Guang to watch "Sketches of Frank Gehry", an inspiring documentary on one of my idols in the Architecture world...
I love this poster! This show would have ended its run by now, and some of you might have watched/missed it already. But I was glad I caught it at The Picturehouse while it's still showing... However I was damn irritated by an inconsiderate cinema-goer, who despite the theatre's warnings not to bring food and drinks into the hall, spent a large part of the film munching on his packet of something... I was so distracted by his eating noises and crumpling sounds of his plastic packet in the otherwise silent theatre, that I couldn't concentrate on the show. So finally I walked across the aisle and told him directly... "You are not allowed to eat in this cinema and the noise you're making is freaking distracting!" Anyway, back to the documentary (see TRAILER HERE) and the architect, Frank Gehry... I've always loved his organic creations like the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the Dancing House in Prague, and many many others. Now I could see how he got his ideas and inspirations for these amazing projects, and how he defied common aesthetics and pushed the envelopes for building designs... He's so famous, or infamous, he's immortalised in an episode of "The Simpsons" cartoon!
Frank Gehry in front of his own residence in The Simpsons
How he got the inspiration for a new concert hall design...
And TA-DAH! The completed structure! (Above images taken from http://blog.davidteoh.com) Watching this documentary has reminded me of my now almost dormant love for Architecture, why I studied it in the first place, and how I would so love to build a house of my own (someday, somewhere in Australia)... Along with my other Archi Idol Toyo Ito's Vivo City, which has probably been watered down by our local authorities, I would quite like to see a Frank Gehry building on our shores... Too bad we lost a chance when the local powers-that-be chose yet another conventional design over Gehry's for our new Integrated Resort... :S [ Feeling... * impressed * ] comments
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