Gehry Partners

About Gehry Partners

Gehry Partners is a full-service firm with broad international experience in museum, theater, performance, institutional, commercial and residential projects.

The senior partners of the firm work as a team in the development of all projects undertaken by the firm, with Frank Gehry leading the design effort and other partners complementing his work with their extensive experience in project management and the development of technical systems.

At the heart of the firm’s approach to design is a process which has been developed over many years, in which the client is brought fully into the design process as part of the design team, making the design a true working collaboration between the firm and the client.

The design process is based on extensive physical modeling at multiple scales. The models explore both the functional and sculptural aspects of the project in a medium understood by designers and laypeople alike.

Very early in the process, actual building materials and large scale mock-ups are employed to promote understanding of the design. Working simultaneously with materials and systems at the detail level and with the formal image at the urban scale, the project evolves in response to the programmatic and budgetary goals defined by the client.

Based in Greater Los Angeles, Gehry Partners has a staff of over 160 people, which includes a group of senior architects who are highly qualified in project management and in the technical development of building systems and construction documents, as well as extensive model-making facilities and a model-building staff capable of executing everything from scale architectural models to full-size mockups.

The firm employs a network of sophisticated computer-aided design workstations in the development of projects and in the translation of design ideas into the technical documents required for construction.

The firm uses CATIA, a three-dimensional computer modeling program originally designed for the aerospace industry, to document designs and to rationalize the bidding, fabrication, and construction process. This program is supplemented by more traditional two-dimensional CAD programs.

The combination of model building and mockup capabilities, materials research, and the application of advanced computer systems and construction techniques allows Gehry Partners to develop designs, in a rational process, that reach beyond the traditional limits of architecture.

The work of Gehry Partners has been featured widely in national and international newspapers and magazines, and has been exhibited in major museums throughout the world.

Recent and current projects include:

• The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Bilbao, Spain;

• The DZ Bank Building, a mixed-use building adjacent to
  the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany;

• Der Neue Zollhof, an office complex in Düsseldorf, Germany;

• The Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington;

• The Ohr-O’Keefe Museum in Biloxi, Mississippi;

• The Bard College Performing Arts Center in Annandale-on-Hudson,
  New York;

• The Peter B. Lewis Campus of the Weatherhead School of Management
  at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio;

• The Vontz Center for Molecular Studies at the University of Cincinnati
  in Cincinnati, Ohio;

• The Millennium Park Music Pavilion and Great Lawn in Chicago, Illinois

• The Corcoran Gallery and School of Art in Washington, DC;

• The Marques de Riscal Winery in Elciego, Spain;

• Maggie’s Centre, a cancer patient care center in Dundee, Scotland;

• The Team Disneyland Administration Building in Anaheim, California;

• The Nationale-Nederlanden Building in Prague, Czech Republic;

• The EMR Communication and Technology Center in Bad Oeynhausen,
  Germany;

• The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota
  in Minneapolis, Minnesota;

• The University of Toledo Center for the Visual Arts in Toledo, Ohio;

• The Vila Olimpica Retail and Commercial Complex in Barcelona, Spain;

• The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California;

• The Chiat/Day Office Building in Venice, California;

• The Vitra International Furniture Museum and Factory in
  Weil am Rhein, Germany;

• The Vitra International Headquarters in Basel, Switzerland.

For more information:

• About Frank Gehry

• Gehry Projects

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