Graduation Year
2017
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Art History
Reader 1
George Gorse
Reader 2
Bruce Coats
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Abstract
This thesis examines the ways in which Frank Gehry’s architectural contributions to Los Angeles’ social and built environment have shaped the region’s “postmodern geographies” throughout the 20th and 21st century. Through a focused exploration of three of Gehry’s postmodernist structures in Greater Los Angeles—a house, a library, and a concert hall—this thesis analyses how Gehry and his designs reflected and affected the artistic and socio-spatial development of Los Angeles’ “decidedly postmodern landscape.”
Recommended Citation
Shearer, Katherine, "The "Postmodern Geographies" of Frank Gehry's Los Angeles" (2017). Scripps Senior Theses. 1031.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1031
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