STRAT Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 Hi guys about a month back i went to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao for a tour with my better half. so i thought i'd share some of my photo's with you. unfortunately i only managed to get 5 or 6 nice shots, so here they are. imho it really is a beautiful, no expense spared creation. very clean and very impressive. [ September 20, 2002, 06:45 AM: Message edited by: STRAT ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted September 20, 2002 Author Share Posted September 20, 2002 Hi guys about a month back i went to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao for a tour with my better half. so i thought i'd share some of my photo's with you. unfortunately i only managed to get 5 or 6 nice shots, so here they are. imho it really is a beautiful, no expense spared creation. very clean and very impressive. [ September 20, 2002, 06:45 AM: Message edited by: STRAT ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Griger Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 Hey Strat, Nice job on the pics, and thanks for posting them for us! Who’s mugshot is in that last pic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Griger Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 Hey Strat, Nice job on the pics, and thanks for posting them for us! Who’s mugshot is in that last pic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt_vinoir Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 GOVERNMENT HEALTH WARNING: Producing really nice viz images can make your hair fall out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt_vinoir Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 GOVERNMENT HEALTH WARNING: Producing really nice viz images can make your hair fall out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quizzy Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 LOOOOOOLLL!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quizzy Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 LOOOOOOLLL!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeDaCoM Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 nice ! let me contribute also hehe it's only to try the uploader pictures taken by me in 1999. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeDaCoM Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 nice ! let me contribute also hehe it's only to try the uploader pictures taken by me in 1999. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ywmang Posted September 22, 2002 Share Posted September 22, 2002 do you guys like this building??? I love this!! this is said to be the most influential architecture in the 20th century Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ywmang Posted September 22, 2002 Share Posted September 22, 2002 do you guys like this building??? I love this!! this is said to be the most influential architecture in the 20th century Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeDaCoM Posted September 23, 2002 Share Posted September 23, 2002 I like it but I think it is not the most influential architecture in the 20th century. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeDaCoM Posted September 23, 2002 Share Posted September 23, 2002 I like it but I think it is not the most influential architecture in the 20th century. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gonny Posted September 25, 2002 Share Posted September 25, 2002 hey hector give me one which is more influential... I think guggenheim bilbau was the next big step after falling water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gonny Posted September 25, 2002 Share Posted September 25, 2002 hey hector give me one which is more influential... I think guggenheim bilbau was the next big step after falling water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt_vinoir Posted October 1, 2002 Share Posted October 1, 2002 how can you expediate an evolution between genres of such vastly different poles? I know everyone knows this building, but he has build a how load of little mini gugs. He's a one liner architect. You want real architecture look to the rationalist scene grassi, terragni etc. Ghery is just a pretty boy architect! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt_vinoir Posted October 1, 2002 Share Posted October 1, 2002 how can you expediate an evolution between genres of such vastly different poles? I know everyone knows this building, but he has build a how load of little mini gugs. He's a one liner architect. You want real architecture look to the rationalist scene grassi, terragni etc. Ghery is just a pretty boy architect! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigcahunak Posted October 2, 2002 Share Posted October 2, 2002 I just don't like it, and don't like most of Gherys' works, but thats me. Its good to have 1 Architect like Ghery on our globe. I'm sure that if all of us architects were designing Ghery style, then if someone would have come with a box design it probably was the most beautiful thing in architecture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigcahunak Posted October 2, 2002 Share Posted October 2, 2002 I just don't like it, and don't like most of Gherys' works, but thats me. Its good to have 1 Architect like Ghery on our globe. I'm sure that if all of us architects were designing Ghery style, then if someone would have come with a box design it probably was the most beautiful thing in architecture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbr Posted October 2, 2002 Share Posted October 2, 2002 If you are familiar with Gehry's work, you'd know that his 'style' has been evolving for several decades and was not something that emerged in Bilbao. One of the most significant aspects to his work is his use of materials, which goes back farther than his formal investigations. He tested several materials in the Bilbao climate before deciding on the titanium (not to mention a sweet deal with a Russian manufacturer to get the stuff cheap). Then there is the aspect of his right hand man, Randy Jefferson, his structural engineer. I had the unique opportunity to take a class with him while at UCLA, and the methodology behind the problem solving is truly amazing. FLW took years to go from one style to another - it takes time. Look at Falling Water and the other houses that surround that period. I love them both. But make no mistake about it (ha! didn't even mean that!), Bilbao and Gehry will go down as the most significant of the later part of the century. No one has pushed architecture, materials, and construction to a higher point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbr Posted October 2, 2002 Share Posted October 2, 2002 If you are familiar with Gehry's work, you'd know that his 'style' has been evolving for several decades and was not something that emerged in Bilbao. One of the most significant aspects to his work is his use of materials, which goes back farther than his formal investigations. He tested several materials in the Bilbao climate before deciding on the titanium (not to mention a sweet deal with a Russian manufacturer to get the stuff cheap). Then there is the aspect of his right hand man, Randy Jefferson, his structural engineer. I had the unique opportunity to take a class with him while at UCLA, and the methodology behind the problem solving is truly amazing. FLW took years to go from one style to another - it takes time. Look at Falling Water and the other houses that surround that period. I love them both. But make no mistake about it (ha! didn't even mean that!), Bilbao and Gehry will go down as the most significant of the later part of the century. No one has pushed architecture, materials, and construction to a higher point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt_vinoir Posted October 2, 2002 Share Posted October 2, 2002 " No one has pushed materials, architecture so much" What if i pushed my hand up my butt more than anyone else? Would i go down in history? Would that make me great? Please, he evolved by building mini titanium houses then offices now a museum in the same shapes with the same materials! Other architects have become more renoun for innovative use of material in architecture. Have you been in his buildings? They are really dark and have to be artificially lit 24 hours a day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt_vinoir Posted October 2, 2002 Share Posted October 2, 2002 " No one has pushed materials, architecture so much" What if i pushed my hand up my butt more than anyone else? Would i go down in history? Would that make me great? Please, he evolved by building mini titanium houses then offices now a museum in the same shapes with the same materials! Other architects have become more renoun for innovative use of material in architecture. Have you been in his buildings? They are really dark and have to be artificially lit 24 hours a day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbr Posted October 2, 2002 Share Posted October 2, 2002 I don't mean to start and argument here, to each his own. But, yes, I have been in his buildings and actually found them particularly well lit (the Vitra Museum and the Vitra Headquarters). The materials I was refering to was #1 the experimentation with simple products, such as 2x4s and chain link fences (Santa Monica Garage and his Santa Monica house) that gradually evolved (as his budgets got bigger) to complex curved stainless, zinc, aluminum, and titanium, and glass. The process of manufacturing complex curved pieces (curves in 2 directions, so the square piece is no longer square) impressive. He had made slumped glass long before E.O. Mosses stuff and pushed mass production of individual steel structural members (almost all of the structural members of Bilbao are unique and prefab with an 80mm allowance - or wait, was the Meier's grid!?). So regardless of whether you like his forms, he has done more for material experimentation than anyone I can think of. If you can think of someone, let me know, I'd be interested. He certainly has pushed things beyond the likes of Lynn or other currently famous architects that are experimenting with manufacturing techniques and materials. Again, just my opinion, but I can't think of anyone else that has done anything over such a long career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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