Does the world need another book about the work of Frank Gehry? The explosion of publications over the past twenty years on arguably the most famous living architect might well engender skepticism as to the necessity for another. Appearing shortly after his ninety-first birthday in February 2020, this first volume of a projected eight- to ten-volume catalogue raisonné of the architect's designs inaugurates a hugely ambitious undertaking. It is a bold and optimistic venture at a time when the challenges of publishing heavily illustrated works have never been greater and the future of the physical form of the book and the means of disseminating scholarship have never been more uncertain.
The earliest commission shown in the book, Gehry's 1954 Julius Romm House, was completed sixty-seven years ago. Few architects, living or deceased, have realized as many projects as Gehry (more than six hundred built and unbuilt designs) over such an...
University of California Press