Gehry Draws edited by Mark Rappolt and Robert Violette

ARCHITECT Frank Gehry creates iconic buildings around the world, for example in Prague (see above) and his famous museum in Bilbao, Spain. His buildings are widely perceived as owing their very existence to computer technology. True, their curving, titanium-clad surfaces and twisting internal spaces were calculated and simulated using computer programs designed for the aviation industry. But the book of his sketches, Gehry Draws, shows the original ideas flow from his drawings, from the human hand. The computer’s achievement has been to translate Gehry’s gestures into architecture.