From 8 march 2007, this exhibition presents the history of this exceptional Parisian project imagined by the architect Franck o Gehry for the LVMH group
This exhibition redraws the process of conception of the architect which explains how " inspired by the wood of Boulogne and the zoological garden, the idea of a greenhouse was very fast imperative " for this building " transparent, playful and serious ", thought as a "glass cloud".
More than fifty models of studies carried out by the agency Gehry Partners, for the first time gathered, tell the complexity of this project and the universe of the Californian architect.
* Frank Gehry realized, during the last forty years, major, public and private buildings, in Europe, in Asia and in the United States. Among them, the Guggenheim museum of Bilbao, the DZ Bank Building in Berlin, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, or still the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum of the university of Minnesota, in Minneapolis.
More than fifty models of studies carried out by the agency Gehry Partners, for the first time gathered, tell the complexity of this project and the universe of the Californian architect.
* Frank Gehry realized, during the last forty years, major, public and private buildings, in Europe, in Asia and in the United States. Among them, the Guggenheim museum of Bilbao, the DZ Bank Building in Berlin, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, or still the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum of the university of Minnesota, in Minneapolis.
