1. Area of interaction focusSignificant concept Human Ingenuity: Why do humans create, develop or change products or solutions? Innovation: Some people innovate and create products that change the traditional standards. MYP unit question Is Frank Gehry an innovative architect? Why? Unit : 3D-Design

2. Architecture as Art

3. VOCABULARY 1.Architecture: the art and science of designing and making buildings 2.Architect: the person who designs buildings 3.Sculpture: a three-dimensional artwork 4.Sculptural: an object that has the qualities of a sculpture 5.Grids = graph paper 6.Shapes: two-dimensional space trapped by a line 7.Organic Form: a three-dimensional object (based on nature) 8.Wiggly: a back and forth kind of movement 9.Movement: the action of moving (either actual or implied) 10.Geometric plane: a geometric, flat two dimensional surface

4. Frank Gehry :: Architect BIOGRAPHY: -Born 1929 Toronto Canada -Moved to Los Angeles during his teenage years -Studied architecture in university -Owns architecture firm in Santa Monica California currently “Don’t try to be someone else. Find your own voice, find your own way.”

5. ARTIST QUOTE “I realized you don’t need grids if you can create spaces and forms and shapes. You can see that in Bilbao…how wiggly can you get and still make a building?”

6. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao Spain 1991-1997

7. Draw the FLOWING ORGANIC FORMS. Detail of the Guggenheim Museum.

8. Interior space of the Guggenheim museum.

9. ARTIST QUOTE “I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of movement in architecture, and how it can induce an emotional response.” Fascinated = very interested Induce = to cause

10. Nationale-Nederlanden Building 1992-1996

11. What was your emotional response to this building? Did it make you feel… Perplexed? (Confused) Inspired? (Motivated) Astonished? (Amazed) Ambivalent? (Unsure) “After seeing the Nederlanden Building I felt…because…”

12. Draw the horizontal lines that create MOVEMENT. Describe these lines. What adjectives will you choose?

13. Draw the vertical lines that create MOVEMENT. Nationale-Nederlanden Building

14. ARTIST QUOTE “I approach each building as a sculptural object, a container, a space filled with light and air.”

15. Nationale-Nederlanden Building Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis Minnesota

16. Draw the lines that make SHARP ANGLES. Weisman Art Museum

17. Draw the GEOMETRIC PLANES. Weisman Art Museum

18. Architecture as Art