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Oct 18, 2018 · Designed in collaboration with German architect Günter Pfeifer, the Design Museum is a clear transition between Gehry’s smaller-scale Deconstructivist projects and the grander, sleeker...
- Luke Fiederer
Sep 25, 2023 · Vitra Design Museum (Weil am Rhein, Germany) Since the early 1980s, furniture manufacturer Vitra has enlisted up-and-coming architects to create buildings for its campus in Weil am Rhein....
Yet during the planning of Frank Gehry's first building in Europe, the original function was expanded. A museum was established as an independent foundation dedicated to the research and popularisation of design and architecture: the Vitra Design Museum.
Even without it, Gehry’s design for the Vitra Design Museum was the last of the pre-technology buildings and demonstrates the architect’s innovative eye. His first building in Europe,...
Designed by the well known diconstructivist architect Frank Gehry, the Vitra Design Museum is an internationally and privately owned museum for design in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Vitra CEO Rolf Fehlbaum founded the museum in 1989.
The museum building, an architectural attraction in its own right, was Frank O. Gehry's first building in Europe, realised in cooperation with the Lörrach architect Günter Pfeifer. Together with the museum, which was originally just designed to house Rolf Fehlbaum's private collection, Gehry also built a more functional-looking production ...
Frank Gehry is considered one of the most influential architects of the late 20th century. He completed his architecture studies at the University of Southern California in 1954, and enrolled at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design to study urban planning, but dropped out soon after and returned to Los Angeles.
