Editing Frank Gehry (section)

== Architectural style ==
Said to "defy categorisation", Gehry's work reflects a spirit of experimentation coupled with a respect for the demands of professional practice, and has remained largely unaligned with broader stylistic tendencies or movements.<ref name="Power-2015">{{Cite news |last=Power |first=Julie |date=6 February 2015 |title=Frank Gehry: the Mad Hatter who transformed Sydney's skyline |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/frank-gehry-the-mad-hatter-who-transformed-sydneys-skyline-20150204-134rac.html |access-date=12 September 2017 |newspaper=[[Sydney Morning Herald]]}}</ref> With his earliest educational influences rooted in [[modernism]], Gehry's work has sought to escape modernist stylistic tropes while remaining interested in some of its underlying transformative agendas. Continually working between given circumstances and unanticipated materializations, he has been assessed as someone who "made us produce buildings that are fun, sculpturally exciting, good experiences", although his approach may become "less relevant as pressure mounts to do more with less".<ref name="Power-2015" />

Gehry's style at times seems unfinished or even crude, but his work is consistent with the California "[[Funk art|funk]]" art movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, which featured the use of inexpensive found objects and nontraditional media such as clay to make serious art.<ref name="achille.paris">{{cite web |date=May 28, 2015 |title=Frank Owen Gehry |url=http://www.achille.paris/en/argus/designer/97 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151119154003/http://www.achille.paris/en/argus/designer/97 |archive-date=November 19, 2015 |access-date=2015-09-14 |publisher=achille.paris |df=mdy-all}}</ref> His works always have at least some element of [[deconstructivism]];<ref name="WorldBuild365">{{cite web |date=29 March 2017 |title=The weird architectural world of Frank Gehry |url=https://www.worldbuild365.com/blog/the-weird-architectural-world-of-frank-gehry-TUB4hF |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402180540/https://www.worldbuild365.com/blog/the-weird-architectural-world-of-frank-gehry-TUB4hF |archive-date=April 2, 2019 |access-date=19 October 2018 |website=WorldBuild365 |language=en}}</ref> he has been called "the apostle of chain-link fencing and corrugated metal siding".<ref>Adams, B. (1988) "Frank Gehry's Merzbau". ''[[Art in America]]'' 76: pp.139–144</ref> However, a retrospective exhibit at New York's [[Whitney Museum of American Art|Whitney Museum]] in 1988 revealed that he is also a sophisticated classical artist who knows European art history and contemporary sculpture and painting.<ref name="achille.paris" />

=== Early influences and design philosophy ===
Frank Gehry has often described architecture as inherently sculptural, asserting, ''[https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=dADH1yXvyUkC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=frank+gehry&ots=nQlP5PpLOy&sig=wGF6yzGi9yJOQujpBx8IK-pg9c0#v=onepage&q=frank%20gehry&f=false “I always thought that architecture was, by definition, a three-dimensional object, therefore sculpture.”]'' This perspective reflects his commitment to blending artistic and architectural disciplines. Gehry’s early work with sculptors influenced his experimental approach, which includes deconstructing traditional architectural forms and embracing ideas of flow and defamiliarization, akin to [https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/fish-ichthyologist-viktor-shklovskys-diverse-achievement/ Viktor Shklovsky’s concept of “laying bare the device.”] Critics often describe his work as embodying [[structuralism]] rather than traditional [[Formalism (philosophy)|formalism.]]

=== Cultural and personal influences ===
Gehry’s Jewish heritage and immigrant background have shaped his architectural philosophy. He often reinterprets traditional forms in ways that reflect his multicultural experience. His works have been described as embodying ''“a critique of consumerism”'' <ref>{{Cite book |last1=Isenberg |first1=Barbara S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cF5CivJnv2MC&dq=frank+gehry+facts&pg=PR9 |title=Conversations with Frank Gehry |last2=Gehry |first2=Frank O. |date=2009 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |isbn=978-0-307-26800-6 |language=en}}</ref>by defying expectations of luxury and focusing on creativity. For Gehry, architecture is not just about creating buildings but about crafting spaces that inspire and challenge societal norms.