Gehry talks architecture + process (Second Expanded Edition)

With the completion of the celebrated Guggenheim Museum in Bilba, architect Frank O. Gehry has entered the pantheon of 20th masters.
Gehry Talks: Architecture + Process documents all of his new work of this decade, tracing his evolution from a SoCal architect known for his idiosyncratic use of materials & collaboration with local artists, to an international figure whose fluid, hitherto undreamt-of forms surge beyond the aesthetic & technical constraints of the 20th century. From the titanium-wrapped curves of the Guggenheim Bilbao to the binocular facade of the Chiat-Day HQ in CA, his innovative structural ideas evoke a sense of freedom & spontaneity while, at the same time, displaying the utmost control. Unbound by guidelines of symmetry or the grid's delineation, his structures spring forth, engaged in a seemingly limitless play of ideas-ever-changing in both the multitudinous combinations of shapes suggested by the form & the depth of the conceptual associations implied by the design. Fish & snake motifs birl upon his building's rippling surfaces, while light follows the asymmetrical trajectories of their metallic folds. Though controversial & daring, his works always possess an elegance that lends warmth & humane scope to each project, regardless of the level of innovation-as evinced in contexts as varying as the complicated, & unrealized, plan of the Lewis House in Lyndhurst, OH, or the clarity of the idea behind the Üstra office building in Hannover.
... 24 projects, including the Chiat-Day Headquarters in Venice, CA; the Team Disneyland Administration Building in Anaheim, CA; the Vitra Furniture Museum and Factory in Weil am Rhein; é the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. The book features insightful essays by editor Mildred Friedman & architecture critic Michael Sorkin, as well as photographs of buildings that have been completed since the publication of the original volume.