Frank Gehry: The City and the Music

Architecture of Frank Gehry

An insightful examination of the social planning and the individual subjectivity of the architecture of Frank Gehry. Frank Gehry: The City and Music is the result of a unique collaboration between the architect and leading critic Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe. The book focuses on two projects, Gehry's unrealized proposal for the rehabilitation of Berlin's Museum Island and his soon to be completed Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

Relationship to Minimalist sculpture

Frank Gehry's much debated relationship to Minimalist sculpture, uses of new building materials and attitude to tradition, are discussed with regard to his belief in architecture as a democratic practice which is at once practical and expressive.

Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe

Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe is a painter and critic, whose publications include Beauty and The Contemporary Sublime, Beyond Piety: Critical Essays on the Visual Arts 1986-1993 and Immanence and Contradiction: Recent Essyas on the Artistic Device. Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe has been awarded National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in painting and criticism as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship in painting, and in 1998 was presented with the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism by the College Art Association.

City and Music

Frank Gehry: The City and the Music by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 905701372X

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