Nightshot, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 7th, 2007, designed by Frank Gehry, photo © 2007-2008 by QuoinMonkey, all rights reserved.
Inspiration, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 7th, 2007, designed by Frank Gehry, photo © 2007-2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
Minneapolis is lucky to have a Gehry designed museum. He is one of the all time great architects, a man whose compassion and conscience match his brilliance. One imagines him doodling and in his head imagining just the kinds of views you have given us. Thank you.
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The second photo looked at first like a close-up of a stainless steel neck of a bottle. I kept staring at it wondering how it could be a museum.
I love these night shots.
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Thanks for your comments. I love shooting architecture. And signs, vintage signs. Photography, objects, architecture – all made for each other. Night shots are intriguing to me. The mystery of shape, darkness, light, and void. I think night shooting creates images that capture what goes on inside emotionally. Light fighting to illuminate the dark.
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Oh, one more thing about Gehry – did you see the documentary about him by Sydney Pollack, Sketches of Frank Gehry? It was kind of long but I loved watching his progress on the pieces from models to buildings.
You can see slideshows of his process on a few pieces at PBS American Masters Explore the Architecture of Sketches of Frank Gehry. I find it fascinating to see how ideas become paper models, then great cathedrals in the sky.
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I did not see the film but I did love the documentary about Louis Kahn. There was a great architect and a great secret lover, apparently, and it was wonderful to see how his buildings have aged.
I wonder about the long term of the Gehry stuff. High style like that is not familiar to our eyes or to builders. So mistakes are made. The Ray and Maria Stata Center at MIT photographs well but up close you can’t help but notice that some of the pieces weren’t fit together too neatly. And the rumor is that the gorgeous Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles had so many change orders during construction that Gehry almost lost his shirt.
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I’ve been wanting to respond to your comment all week, but have just gotten the time.
I read the Louis Kahn article at your link – Wow. I didn’t know much about him or his work. Now I want to see the documentary his son made, My Architect. The photos of his work with space and light and the years he was designing make me think he was way ahead of his time.
His philosophy stated in the article at Design Museum seems spiritually aligned:
Convinced that contemporary architects could – and should – produce buildings which were as monumental and as spiritually inspiring as the ancient ruins of Greece and Egypt, Kahn devoted his career to the uncompromising pursuit of formal perfection and emotional expression.
Thanks for introducing me to him. Parts of his life and death seem very sad to me. And it sounds like he did have his secrets.
What you say about Gehry’s work – the impermanence of it, I had not thought about that before. It does make you wonder. I love learning more about architecture.
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