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COVER PHOTOGRAPHED BY JEFFREY LO
ANGELES MAGAZINE SPRING 2012 3
EDITOR IN CHIEFJeffrey Lo
Assistant EditorOscar O’Neal
Creative directorAmber Vanderbilt
Photo EditorNicholas Eames
Advertising DirectorNancy Macha
Sr. Graphic DesignerEthan Echols
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FEATURE
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ith its exuberant, swooping facade, Frank Gehry’s new-
est building, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown
Los Angeles, looks anything but old-fashioned. And yet
in at least one way, it’s an architectural throwback. In
an era when office parks, suburban developments, and
even skyscrapers seem to zoom to completion in a mat-
ter of months, the $274 million hall, which opens Oct. 23
with three nights of inaugural performances by the L.A.
Philharmonic, recalls the days when significant public
buildings sometimes took decades to finish.
It wasn’t planned that way, of course. The project
had its start back in 1987, with a $50 million gift from
Walt Disney’s widow, Lillian. Working with a Japanese
acoustician named Yasuhisa Toyota, Gehry quickly
produced some very promising preliminary designs. The
building seemed destined to be not just Gehry’s most
important in Southern California, where he’s lived for
nearly 60 of his 74 years, but among the most important
of his career.
Then, in the mid-1990s, a ballooning budget, fund-
raising troubles, and other problems stalled the project.
It wasn’t revived until 1997, when it received a new
infusion of cash from the Disney family and others. That
year saw the opening of Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum
in Bilbao, Spain, which turned Gehry into a world-famous
“starchitect,” doing exactly for his reputation what Disney
Hall was supposed to. And indeed the two buildings
have a lot in common: Both are composed of a jumble
of organic forms sheathed in gleaming, windowless
metal panels. (In Spain the material is titanium. In Los
Angeles the facade was originally going to be limestone,
but budget cutbacks or seismic worries, depending on
which story you believe, forced Gehry to go with panels
of brushed stainless steel.)
Is the long-delayed Disney Hall, then, just a
consolation prize for Los Angeles? Does one of the
biggest cities in the world find itself in the odd position of
playing second fiddle to a Basque regional capital with a
population under 400,000? Not exactly. The building is a
fantastic piece of architecture—assured and vibrant and
worth waiting for. It has its own personality, instead of
being anything close to a Bilbao rehash.
And surprisingly enough, it turns out that all of
those postponements and budget battles have been
a boon for the hall’s design. What the finished product
makes most clear is that like plenty of artists, Frank
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Frank Gehry was born Ephraim Owen Goldberg in
Toronto, Canada. He moved with his family to Los Ange-
les as a teenager in 1947 and later became a natural-
ized U.S. citizen. His father changed the family’s name
to Gehry when the family immigrated. Ephraim adopted
the first name Frank in his 20s; since then he has signed
his name Frank O. Gehry.
Uncertain of his career direction, the teenage
Gehry drove a delivery truck to support himself while
taking a variety of courses at Los Angeles City College.
He took his first architecture courses on a hunch, and
became enthralled with the possibilities of the art, al-
though at first he found himself hampered by his relative
lack of skill as a draftsman. Sympathetic teachers and
an early encounter with modernist architect Raphael So-
riano confirmed his career choice. He won scholarships
to the University of Southern California and graduated in
1954 with a degree in architecture.
Los Angeles was in the middle of a post-war
housing boom and the work of pioneering modernists
like Richard Neutra and Rudolph Schindler were an
exciting part of the city’s architectural scene. Gehry
went to work full-time for the notable Los Angeles firm of
Victor Gruen Associates, where he had apprenticed as
a student, but his work at Gruen was soon interrupted
by compulsory military service. After serving for a year
in the United States Army, Gehry entered the Harvard
Graduate School of Design, where he studied city plan-
ning, but he returned to Los Angeles without completing
a graduate degree. He briefly joined the firm of Pereira
and Luckman before returning to Victor Gruen. Gruen
Associates were highly successful practitioners of the
severe utilitarian style of the period, but Gehry was rest-
less. He took his wife and two children to Paris, where
he spent a year working in the office of the French archi-
tect Andre Remondet and studied firsthand the work of
the pioneer modernist Le Corbusier.
Frank GehryThe man behind the building
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Gehry tends to work better with restrictions, whether they’re
physical, financial, or spatial. Without them, his work tends to
sprawl not just figuratively but literally.
Even though it cost more than a quarter of a billion
dollars and covers 293,000 square feet, Disney Hall is a
tighter, more focused effort than many of those Gehry has
produced after Bilbao, when the commissions came rolling
in, his budgets suddenly became freer, and he found himself
with clients perhaps less likely to challenge his authority. The
hall manages to be at once lean and wildly expressionistic. It
looks like a building in which every design decision has gone
through two layers of scrutiny: one financial, the other aes-
thetic. Gehry had many years to tweak the project, and he’s
managed to polish it without sacrificing any of its vitality.
Like a lot of Gehry’s work, the new building relates
remarkably well to the city, though the visual fireworks of its
facade and its plush interior spaces may well distract a lot of
people from this fact. It occupies a full city block at the top of
Bunker Hill, across the street from Dorothy Chandler Pavil-
ion, a gilded late-modernist mistake that used to house both
the Philharmonic and the Academy Awards and today hosts
neither. (The Oscars are now handed out at the new David
Rockwell-designed Kodak Theater, a few miles away.) The
facade soars, bends, and dives in a number of directions, in
typical Gehry fashion, but that movement is always checked
by the limits of the city grid. Seen from above, the building
looks like a bunch of flowers contained, barely, within a per-
fectly rectangular flower box. Indeed, that tension—between
free-flowing imagination and the limits imposed by physics
and budgets—is what defines the building as a whole.
That tension continues inside. There is a small perfor-
mance and lecture space, for example, that Gehry created
simply by stretching out one rounded corner of the huge
lobby until it was big enough to operate as a quasi-separate
room. It’s a setting for chamber music and pre-concert
lectures that didn’t require any new walls or floors or even a
stage. It makes something remarkable out of nothing.
Other details in the lobby, from the walls lined in Doug-
las fir to the remarkable treelike columns (whose stocky,
branching form Gehry says he stole from the Czech architect
Joze Plecnik), promote a dreamlike and otherworldly feel, a
detachment from the hustle-bustle and the grime of the city.
But the lobby is also open to everybody: You don’t need a
ticket to walk through it, as is the case in many concert halls.
This is an old-school public space in the tradition of Grand
Central Terminal or Bertram Goodhue’s low-slung central
branch of the Los Angeles Public Library, which is only a few
blocks away from the new hall.
There is still more productive tension inside the
auditorium itself, which holds about 2,200 people and during
daytime performances will be naturally lit by mostly hidden
skylights and one tall window. The free-flowing, organic
forms that Gehry loves to use are offset by the rigorous
acoustic demands that any architect of a concert hall has to
contend with. (In an auditorium of this kind, every exposed
surface, from balcony railings to seat upholstery, can affect
how the orchestra sounds.) As it turns out, Frank Gehry and
concert halls are well-matched. Acousticians have realized
over the last few decades that convex—or outwardly bulg-
ing—curves can be very effective, bouncing and dispersing
sound waves produced by an orchestra. (Concave curves,
on the other hand, can trap sound.) And in buildings from
Paris to Seattle, Gehry has produced what easily qualifies as
architecture’s most varied and complete collection of convex
curves. There’s no definitive word yet on whether Disney
Hall’s acoustics are indeed good; the orchestra’s first perfor-
“The facade soars, bends, and dives in a number of directions, in typical
Gehry fashion.”
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mance is still a few days away. But the early word from the
musicians, who began rehearsing in the new auditorium over
the summer, has been positive.
All of these dualities are fitting for a concert hall. An
attraction of going to the symphony is trading in your regular
self for a better-dressed, more cultured one. Symphony or-
chestras these days are looking for ways to attract younger,
hipper audiences as their core supporters grow older, while
at the same time preserving the sense of refuge that will al-
ways be classical music’s main drawing card. Gehry’s design
cleverly explores both sides of that divide: It is a building
where the members of a democracy can go to feel refined, to
be lifted from the everyday.
Gehry, along with a few of his more admiring crit-
ics, likes to define himself as a combination of artist and
architect. That job description suggests that he envies the
kind of pure creation that painters and sculptors can indulge
in, distant from the demands of zoning boards, engineers,
and French horn players. But in fact the Disney Concert Hall
seems to make the opposite case about his talents. It’s full of
evidence that Gehry is an architect in the most public-minded
and collaborative senses of the word—that he’s a master at
figuring out ways to allow inspiration to serve practicality, and
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the price of looking good may be HIGHER THAN YOU THINK You’ve been dying to try that new shampoo that’s supposed
to make your hair thick, lush and shiny. You can’t wait to use that new
exfoliating scrub because the label tells you that it’s going to make your
skin soft and glowing. You love that new cologne; every time you wear it
you get so many compliments on how great you smell!
You love these products and how they make you look and feel,
but did it ever occur to you that what you put on your hair or your skin
could make you sick? Did you know these products contain chemicals,
toxins and hormones that can cause anything from an unsightly rash
to learning difficulties to birth defects and even cancer? Even though
each product may contain a limited amount of these toxins, please keep
in mind, most people use several products each day, from the moment
they wake up (soap, shampoo, conditioner, shave cream, deodorant,
toothpaste, hand soap, make up) until they go to bed. After many years
of daily use, these toxins accumulate in your body to cause the ailments
I’ve listed above, among many others. If they cause these concerns for
adults, just imagine the damage they can do to children who are smaller
and weigh less. Although each product yout may use may contain a re-
stricted amount of chemicals, hormones and toxins, they can, and many
times they do cause a myriad of damage to us all.
BEAUTY
ToxicBEAUTY
BY MERCEDES CAMBRIDGE III
PHOTOGRAPHED BY DUSTIN MIDDLEFORD
STYLED BY AMBER KELLY
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HIGHER THAN YOU THINK
Not only are these beauty products toxic for humans, they are
toxic to the environment, as well. Many of these products are made with
petroleum-based ingredients, which contributes to global warming. Did
you know that if you switch just one bottle of a petroleum based product
for a vegetable based product we could save 81,000 barrels of oil in one
year. How’s that for incentive to switch?
So now you decide it’s time to go “green”, you go to the health
food store and purchase “Organic” or “Natural” products and you no
longer have to worry about these concerns...or do you?
“Not only are these beauty products toxic for humans, they are toxic to the environment.”
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