Design From Without

Images of the Walt Disney Opera House taken from about.com

 Artist, designers, and even architects have a keen sense of making an image in their head and creating it into something exceptional. Yet, almost all of these people do not think of an idea from out of nowhere, many get such ideas from inspiration not from within, but rather from without. Inspiration can be from anywhere whether it is from your favorite song or band, the food you are eating, or even an everyday smoke-pipe, people build upon something which already exists.

One person who I want to focus on that finds inspiration from the outside world is a famous architect by the name of Frank Gehry. Frank’s work has appeared in many places in the world such as Anaheim, Korea, and even in the two dimensional animation world of The Simpsons .Gehry, is most recognized by the deconstructive style in his architecture (Deconstructive meaning breaking an object, or shape and distorting its original feature).  

In an interview conducted by www.achievement.org, Gehry finds his inspiration in the” interest of the sense of movement in architecture… [And looking] at what's around you, you take things in, you absorb. I think the most important thing is the people; finally, it's a human thing. It's how you interact with people and how you interpret their wishes and yearnings”.  Here Gehry architect combines both his own interest in the subject of movement and combining it with the ideas from a client. In a sense his inspiration resembles the logic/idea from that of Stone Soup, in the inspiration of team work.