Humanizing building with digital technology: Frank Gehry's architectural evolution

Abstract

Frank Gehry (1929) is well-known for using bewildering postmodern shapes to challenge the modern architectural design paradigm by snubbing the doctrine of "form follows function". The Guggenheim Museum building in Bilbao he designed, somewhat like abstract sculpture, confronts polarized reviews. Employing document analysis of written materials and electronic information, this paper clarifies the delusion and explores the accomplishment of Gehry's postmodern paradigm shift in architecture illustrated with Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.