Unit: 3D-Design

Area of
interaction focus

Significant
concept
Innovation:
Human Ingenuity:
Some people
Why do humans
innovate and
create, develop
create products
or change
that change the
products orMYP unit question
traditional
solutions?
Is Frank Gehry anstandards.
innovative

architect? Why?

Architectur
e as Art

VOCABU
LARY

1. Architecture: the art and science of

designing and making buildings
2. Architect: the person who designs
buildings
3. Sculpture: a three-dimensional artwork
4. Sculptural: an object that has the
qualities of a sculpture
5. Grids = graph paper
6. Shapes: two-dimensional space trapped
by a line
7. Organic Form: a three-dimensional object
(based on nature)

Frank Gehry ::
Architect
BIOGRAPHY:
-Born 1929 Toronto
Canada
-Moved to Los
Angeles during his
teenage years
-Studied architecture
in university
-Owns architecture

Dont try to
be someone
else. Find
your own
voice, find
your own

ARTIST
QUOTE
I realized you dont
need grids if you can
create spaces and
forms and shapes.
You can see that in
Bilbaohow wiggly

Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao

Spain 1991-1997

Draw the FLOWING ORGANIC

FORMS.

Detail of the Guggenheim Museum.

Interior space of the Guggenheim

museum.

ARTIST
QUOTE
Ive always been
fascinated with the
idea of movement in
architecture, and how
it can induce an
emotional response.

Nationale-Nederlanden Building
1992-1996

What was your emotional

response to this building?
Did it make you feel
Perplexed?
(Confused)
Inspired?
(Motivated)
Astonished?
After
seeing the Nederlanden
(Amazed)
Building
I
feltbecause
Ambivalent?

Draw the horizontal lines that

create MOVEMENT.

Describe these lines. What adjectives will

Draw the
vertical
lines that
create
MOVEMENT
.

Nationale-Nederlanden Building

ARTIST
QUOTE
I approach each
building as a
sculptural object, a
container, a space
filled with light and
air.

Weisman Art Museum,

Minneapolis Minnesota

Nationale-Nederlanden Building

Draw the lines that make

SHARP ANGLES.

Weisman Art Museum

Draw the GEOMETRIC PLANES.

Weisman Art Museum

Architectur
e as Art