Gehry House (Santa Monica, CA) : View of a window on the north wall

Creator:

Gehry, Frank Owen, 1929-

Published/Created:

Santa Monica, California, United States
ca. 1979-present

Date Depicted:

12/1/1996
1950 AD - 2010 AD

Materials:

chain link
concrete block
corrugated aluminum metal siding
plywood

Notes:

Adhering to the spirit of ad-hocism... Frank Gehry's own house in Los Angeles [Santa Monica] is rather a collision of parts, built to stay but with a deliberately unfinished, ordinary builderlike sensibility of parts. An existing and very pedestrian two-story gambrel-roofed clapboard residence had much of its interior removed and walls stripped back to their original two-by- four stud frame, beams, and rafters. It was then expanded by wrapping the old house with a metal slipcover creating a new set of spaces around its perimeter. The antirefinement type enclosure is built of the most mundane materials, corrugated aluminum metal siding, plywood, glass and chain-link fencing, and deliberately has randomly slanted lines and angled protrusions. Although the house retains a certain minimalist sense, the effort here is cluttered expressionistic and the sensibility is freely intended as artistically intuitive, of accident not resolved. With the original house almost intact formwise, Gehry, in effect, lifted back the skin to reveal the building as layers, with new forms breaking out and tilting away from the original, to create a forerunner of the Deconstructionist spirit of the eighties." pp 228-230.

Variant Titles:

Gehry Residence

Topics:

Architecture -- United States -- 20th century -- (YVRC)

Period/Style:

Deconstructivist
Postmodern

Culture:

American

Accession Number:

1A1-GF-GH-B1

Genre:

architecture (AAT)

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Sculptures, Models, & Architecture

Rights:

Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.

Access Restrictions:

Yale Community Only

Digital:

architectural exteriors; contemporary (1960 to present) construction buildings; dwellings; houses

Source Creator:

Gilchrist, Scott

Source Title:

Archivision Base Collection

Source Created:

2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
12/1/1996

Source Note:

Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2011; photographer Scott Gilchrist

Yale Collection:

Visual Resources Collection

Digital Collection:

Visual Resources Collection

Local Record Number:

4152

OID:

10088523

PID:

digcoll:1821851