Frank Gehry 4

Franks monumental works are the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, which was completed in 1990 and was one of his first monumental works. Frank was chosen to do this building after a long selection process because it was clear that he "showed that he really understood the mission and dream of the museum". Some more are the Guggenheim Museum which shows sections of it's steel skeleton but is mostly covered in thin tissue like paper titanium, warm limestone, and glass. Pilar Vlades explains that this project gave Gehry the opportunity "to test his vision of a pileup of buildings like an acropolis..." speaking about the Loyola Law school.The Walt Disney Concert Hall which was considered a "serene, ennobling building that will give people in this city of private places a new sense of the pleasures of public space" said by Paul Goldberger. It is the permanent home of the Los Angeles philharmonic. Gehry is a distinguished professor of architecture at Columbia University in NYC, and also teaches at Yale University. He has done other pieces, like the Dancing House that is in downtown Prague, Czech Republic his design stands out because this building is like two people dancing. Frank Gehry is still working on buildings that are progress like the Atlantic Yards in NYC, and the Performing Arts Complex at the World Trade Center sitein NYC.