"Sketches of Frank Gehry"

Last Saturday night, I went to Music Box Theatre to see "Sketches of Frank Gehry", a documentary, directed by Sydney Pollack, depicking his good friend and fame architect Frank O. Gehry's career as an architect. I love the film from the perspective of an architectural student and hopeful architect in the future. I admit I did not appreciate his architecture prior this documentary. Previously I have only seen images and photos and sketches and drawings and cad and many other resources through the mean of publishing and magazines and newspapers and books. I was always in doubt about his architecture as well as many others in the ear of Post Modernism. Particular in regard to Frank Gehry's architeture as usually depicted by critics as "Deconstructionism" theory of thought process in design as would to other architects like Bernard Tschumi, Daniel Libeskind, Zaha Hadid, and others whom were and still are faslely been labeled one style or another. Nevertheless, Frank Gehry's architecture such as the famed Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao as much as unique and beautiful, I had always in doubt of heavily engineered and overtly expensive for the sake of beautiful design. Supposely I perhaps did not appreciate the process that was involved in determining the final product of his architecture.

I happen to live in the city of Chicago where his presence was prevalent and instantly recognizable as by anyone who went and saw the Millennium Park's Pritzker Pavilion (or otherwise known as Band Shell). Last Friday evening, I was invited to see Jeffery Ballet performing with CSO at the Pavilion. Sitting under those steel tubing bracing Band Shell hoving over with handing surround sound speakers emerging and almost clashing with the numerous curling pieces of thin steel sheets (supported heavily on the back side as one can see) with titanium claddings bursting out from the performing stage, I was compel to emerse myself in the act and music and the absence of the structure and present of the crowd, which the art as presented itself is appropriate and quite successful. It is the public space that affirms the presence of the art and archtiecture that Frank Gehry's paper cut model would have probably depicted in his studio. I was blown by his ingenious deviation of conventional geometry and form unified yet fragment. I appreciated it more and more each time I wandered his architecture.

I would assert the movie "Sketches of Frank Gehry" attemp to achieve such conclusion as well. His architecture does not need to be explained by no other than Frank Gehry himself. His design emerges only working with suitable clients that he loves to work and associate with can only define more of his approach and process which his architecture will become. The New York Times's review of "Sketches of Frank Gehry" is also a positive note from film critics.