Archive of Toronto-born Frank Gehry gets home in his adopted hometown of L.A.
LOS ANGELES — A massive archive containing papers, drawings and models of work by Canadian-born, world-renowned architect Frank Gehry is getting a home in his adopted hometown.
The Getty Research Institute announced Tuesday that it has hundreds of thousands of sketches, drawings, models, photographs, slides and paperwork involving 283 projects that Gehry designed between 1954 and 1988.
They include documents about Gehry’s famous Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles, a bouquet of shiny, curved metal blocks that was completed in 2003.
Gehry “contributed to the essential concepts which put Los Angeles and its particular architectural vision at the centre of the global architectural discourse,” said Maristella Casciato, senior curator of architectural collections at the Getty Research Institute.