Frank Gehry

Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe is a painter and art critic, and teaches in the graduate school at Art Center, Pasadena, California, USA. He has been awarded National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in painting and criticism as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship in painting, and in 1998 was presented with the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism by the College Art Association.

• Introduction. Improbable Logic. Berlin: The Preservation of Insulation. Los Angeles: Music and the Idea of the Centre. Conclusion: The Practicality of Planes Taking Flight in Mass, Towards Colour.

'Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe challenges us with every sentence, every paragraph, and every page to see the world - and especially the work of artists and architects such as Frank Gehry - anew. Gilbert-Rolfe's text is essential reading.'Richard Koshalek, Director Emeritus, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles'Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe powerfully demonstrates the significance of Frank Gehry's architecture. Frank Gehry: The City and Music positions Gehry's mature work as an exercise in liberation, an adventurous experiment with architectural materials, which nonetheless resonates with the client's programme.'Bruce Mau, Creative Director, Bruce Mau Design