Frank O Gehry the Don Quixote of Architects.
An unconventional architect whose favourite books are Don Quixote and Alice in Wonderland, because he loved and could identify with the unconventional and mad characters in these books: Don Quixote and the Madhatter. He became a starquitect late in life with the Guggenheim in Bilbao. He is now seen as one of the most important and influential architects of our time. He is an unconventional architect
– using unconventional designs and unconventional materials.
– being more inspired by paintings, sculptures and music than by buildings
– his buildings look like sculptures
We are going to have a look at his works: what went before the Guggenheim in Bilbao, the apotheósis Bilbao and what came after Bilbao.
Biography
Drs Helen Sijsling MA (born in Australia, lived in the Netherlands, lives in Spain), MA History of Art (University of Leyden), MA English Literature (Universities of Leyden and Oxford) and MA Educational Management (University of Amsterdam). Helen taught English for the first part of her career to later become management consultant on education, advising secondary schools on educational improvement and training teachers and managers in The Netherlands and the Antilles. Helen is presently Chairman of The Arts Society Nerja and has lectured to The Arts Societies in Europe and many other societies on many different subjects like Zaha Hadid, Ernst Barlach, Moroccan Orientalism, Rembrandt and Caravaggio, but also on many Spanish subjects like Barcelona 1900, Magic Melilla and Ceuta, Flamenco, Cave Art from Sulawesi to Spain, El Greco, Goya, Santiago de Compostella, Juana the Mad.
