COLLECTION NAME:
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Record
Preferred Title:
American Center Work_PrefTitle American Center Preferred Title false
Alternate Title:
Cinémathèque Française Work_AltTitle Cinémathèque Française Alternate Title false
Image View:
Temporary building, context view, from the northwest, depicting lateral tension cables Image_Title Temporary building, context view, from the northwest, depicting lateral tension cables Image View false
Creator:
Frank Owen Gehry (American architect, born 1929) Agent_Display Frank Owen Gehry (American architect, born 1929) Creator false
Location:
site: Paris, Île-de-France, France Work_Location_Type_Display site: Paris, Île-de-France, France Location false
Location Note:
51, rue de Bercy Work_LocationNotes 51, rue de Bercy Location Note false
Date:
1994 (creation) Work_DateDisplay 1994 (creation) Date false
Cultural Context:
American Work_Culture American Cultural Context false
Style Period:
Postmodern Work_StylePeriodDisplay Postmodern Style Period false
Work Type 1:
mixed-use development Work_Worktype1 mixed-use development Work Type 1 false
Classification:
architecture Work_Classification architecture Classification false
Material:
limestone; steel; glass; zinc Work_MaterialDisplay limestone; steel; glass; zinc Material false
Technique:
construction (assembling) Work_Technique construction (assembling) Technique false
Subjects:
architectural exteriors; contemporary (1960 to present); Art museums Work_Image_SubjectDisplay architectural exteriors; contemporary (1960 to present); Art museums Subjects false
Description:
Now the home of the Cinémathèque Française, the largest archive of films, movie documents, and film-related objects in the world. The architecture of the building might be best understood against the backdrop of Gehry's struggles to build the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles (roughly concurrent with the timeline of this project) and his eventual triumph at Bilbao. If Bilbao's is definitively exuberant, the American Center's geometry seems almost indeterminate--sometimes masterful, other times awkward and circumstantial. Part of this encompasses a struggle to square irregular geometry with ordinary office space (which made up a substantial portion of the program). This illustrates the intermediate step that this building represents (somewhere between Disney and Bilbao) in the development of a workable process to translate irregular designs into material existence. (Source: Galinsky [website]; http://www.galinsky.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Base Collection LocalCollection Archivision Base Collection Collection false
Identifier:
1A1-GF-AC-B1 Image_OriginalVendorID 1A1-GF-AC-B1 Identifier false
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

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