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Above: view of the living
room open to the patio,
around 1965; above: study
of plan, 1964. Pencil and
ink on tracing paper; right:
study of interiors,
presumably by Greg
Walsh, 1964. Pencil and ink
on tracing paper.
Opposite page: interior of
the studio with
pool table and the
boxy volume of the
darkroom, around 1965
The Frank Gehry Papers were
acquired by the Getty Research
Institute in Los Angeles (CA) in 2017.
They cover the period from the
architect’s early graduate studies to
the competition entry for the Walt
Disney Concert Hall. The archive
includes drawings, partial and
complete models, project
documentation, correspondence,
photographs and slides, and
ephemera pertaining to projects
dating to the early years of the
architect’s practice. It covers 283
projects designed between 1954 (the
Romm House) and 1988 (the Walt
Disney Concert Hall competition).
It also includes materials for projects
produced after 1988 but initiated
before that date. The Gehry archive
is massive and consists ofseveral
thousands of sketches, more than
120,000 working drawings, more than
100,000 slides, hundreds of boxes of
office records, personal papers, and
correspondence, 168 working models
and 112 complete models.
http://www.getty.eduThe solution was
a fortress-like
structure, recessed
from the street
Top: Perspective street
view, presumably by
Carlos Diniz, 1964. Pencil
on tracing paper