Sketch for Fishdance Restaurant, Kobe, Japan, Exterior perspective
Frank O. Gehry
American, born Canada 1929
1986-87
An energetic ink-on-paper study by Frank O. Gehry that sketches the exterior of his proposed Fishdance Restaurant in Kobe, aiming to capture a fishlike, flowing geometry and the sense of movement the finished building should convey.
The eye is drawn to a dense, feathered loop of hatch marks that reads like a leaping fish or wing, set against spare horizontal lines and quick architectural gestures that make the drawing feel both playful and structurally suggestive.
The sheet reveals Gehry’s signature use of rapid, calligraphic sketches to translate sculptural imagination into architectural proposals, helping to popularize expressive, biomorphic architecture in the late twentieth century.
Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
9 x 12" (22.9 X 30.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Barbara Pine in Memory of Morris Goldman
Accession
485.1990
Palette
Art Terms
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