Special Exhibitions
Challenging Structure: Frank Gehry’s Peter B. Lewis Building
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Special Exhibitions |
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Challenging Structure: Frank Gehry’s Peter B. Lewis Building |
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About the Exhibition Frank Gehry's career as an architect is a rarity. His fame rivals that of sports figures, politicians, and movie stars. As a result, observers often confuse Gehry's buildings with their creator, investing static structures with human qualities. His buildings then become subject to the same extravagant praise and stinging criticism directed at living celebrities. The new headquarters of the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, named for its principal funder, Peter B. Lewis, is no exception. Provocative, perhaps irreverent, the building bears attributes that Lewis believes will "excite, and challenge, and stimulate and cause controversy, and put Cleveland on a map in a way it hasn't been on a map before."Frank Gehry opened his first studio in 1962, but only recently has his radical vision achieved international renown. Gehry's buildings have been called "sculpture as structure," and his sensibilities are certainly similar to those of contemporary artists. In the 1960s, Gehry became part of a group of Los Angeles artists including Ed Ruscha whose focus is pop art. Subsequent contact with East Coast artists like the minimalist sculptor Richard Serra engendered a "willingness to have a dream….to do something…endlessly and consistently….until you realize it." The Gehry Process The Frank Gehry-Peter B. Lewis Connection Page 1 of 5 -- CMA Public Programs |
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