Volume 46, Number 16 · October 21, 1999
Ghosts in the House
By Martin Filler
Frank O. Gehry: The Complete Works
by Francesco Dal Co, by Kurt W. Forster
Monacelli, 614 pp., $85.00
Frank O. Gehry: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
by Coosje van Bruggen
Guggenheim/Abrams, 211 pp., $27.50 (paper)
Frank O. Gehry: Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa
text by Kurt W. Forster, photographs by Ralph Richter
Stuttgart/London: Edition Axel Menges, 56 pp., $39.00
Gehry Talks: Architecture + Process
edited by Mildred Friedman, with an essay by Michael Sorkin, commentaries by Frank O. Gehry
Rizzoli, 300 pp., $65.00
Frank O. Gehry: Kurt W. Forster Art Publishers)
edited by Christina Bechtler, in collaboration with Kunsthaus Bregenz
Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Cantz (distributed in the US by Distributed, 131 pp., $19.95 (paper)
Just as the annals of twentieth-century architecture began drawing to their close and the grand summations were being written, a thrilling and largely unexpected denouement was provided by Frank Gehry. The completion of his Guggenheim Museum Bilbao of 1991-1997 in the Basque country's largest city caused an architectural sensation of a sort not experienced since Frank Lloyd Wright's original Guggenheim opened in New York almost forty years earlier. The first Frank's startling concrete coil on Fifth Avenue has long been widely regarded as the museum's own greatest work of art, and now so is its biomorphic, titanium-swathed Spanish branch.
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