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	EMP Museum \| Experience Music Project

DESIGNER


		Frank O. Gehry

DESCRIPTION

EMP is a leading-edge, nonprofit museum, dedicated to the ideas and risk-taking that fuel contemporary popular culture.

With its roots in rock ‘n’ roll, EMP serves as a gateway museum, reaching multi- generational audiences through our collections, exhibitions, and educational programs, using interactive technologies to engage and empower our visitors. At EMP, artists, audiences, and ideas converge, bringing understanding, interpretation, and scholarship to the popular culture of our time.

MATERIALS

steel, concrete, glass

LOCATION

Continent

North America

Nation

United States

State

Washington

County

King

Town

Seattle

Address

325 5th Avenue N - Seattle Center

Telephone

+1.206.770.2700

Website

www.empmuseum.org

E-mail

experience@empmuseum.org

MAP

TYPOLOGY

Main

ARCHITECTURE

Museums and buildings for exhibitions

Specialized museums

Education buildings

Libraries, archives and documentation centres

Buildings for recreational activities

Auditoriums and music centres

Additional

ARCHITECTURE

Buildings for offices and professional practises

Offices

Commercial buildings

Bars, cafeterias

CHRONOLOGY

Project


	1996

Realisation


	1997 - 2000

THE BUILDING IN CINEMA

Title

Sketches of Frank Gehry

Directed by

Sydney Pollack

Nationality

Germany - USA

Year of production

2005

Cast

Charles Arnoldi, Mildred Friedman, Frank O. Gehry, Bob Geldof, Dennis Hopper, Charles Jencks, Philip Johnson, Sydney Pollack

Building's role

Marginal
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BIBILIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES

Elisabetta G. Mapelli, "Museo della Musica Rock a Seattle, USA / Experience Music Project (EPM), Seattle, USA", L'industria delle costruzioni 371, maggio-giugno/may-june 2003 [Architettura dei musei], pp. 30-35

Olivo Barbieri (photo), "Frank O. Gehry. Experience Music Project. Seattle", Lotus Navigator 6, settembre/september 2002 [L'espansione dell'arte / The expansion of art], pp. 110-123

Philip Jodidio, Architecture Now!, Taschen, KÃ¶ln 2001, pp. 101-109

"Experience Music Project. Frank O Gehry & Associates", GA Document 63, november 2000, pp. 10-23

"Experience Music Project in Seattle. Frank O. Gehry, Santa Monica", Detail 7/2000, oktober-november/october-november 2000 [Umnutzung, Erweiterung, Sanierung, Refurbishment, RÃ©habilitation], p. 1197

Peter Davey, "Body and mind: Sydney's Olympian feats, Gehry's Seattle experience, Chaix & Morel", Architectural Review 1244, october 2000, pp. 50-85Catherine Slessor, "Museum of Contemporary Music, Seattle, WA. Frank O Gehry & Associates", Architectural Review 1244, october 2000, pp. 72-77 (50-85)

Charles Linn, "Creating sleek metal skins for buildings", Architectural Record 10/2000, october 2000, pp. 173-178

Rowan Moore, "Gehry dopo Bilbao / Gehry after Bilbao", DomusÂ 829, settembre/september 2000, "Servizi/Features" pp. 72-83

James S. Russell, "A marriage of money, technology, youth culture, and glitz, the Experience Music Project is Frank O Gehry's paean to rock 'n' roll rebellion", Architectural Record 8/2000, august 2000, pp. 126-137

Zoe Ryan, "Music hall. Frank O Gehry & Associates", Blueprint 174, july 2000, pp. 20-21

Robert Ivy, "Frank Gehry: Plain Talk with a Master", Architectural record 5/1999, "Features" p. 192 (185-192, 356, 359-360)

Frank O. Gehry, "Museo della musica contemporanea a Seattle. Un puzzle caleidoscopico dedicato a Jimi Hendrix / Museum of Contemporary Music in Seattle. A Caleidoscopic Puzzle Dedicated ti Jimi Hendrix", Casabella 653, febbraio/february 1998, pp. 4-11

Francesco Dal Co, Kurt W. Foster, Hadley Soutter Arnold, Frank O.Gehry. Tutte le opere, Electa, Milano 1998, pp. 568-573

"Gehry designs 'far out' interactive music museum", Architectural Record 1/1997, january 1997, p. 45

CLIENT

Paul Allen - Jody Allen Patton
Experience Music Project

AMOUNT

$ 240.000.000

DIMENSIONAL
DATA

Surface

total sq.m. 43.660
exhibition spaces sq.m. 35.000

STRUCTURES

Skilling Ward Magnusson Barkshire, Inc. - SWMB

STAFF

Project

Frank O. Gehry & Associates, Inc.

Design concept

Frank O. Gehry

Project leader

James M. Glymph

Design architects

Craig Webb

Project architect

Terry Bell, George Metzger, Laurence Tighe

Associate architect

LMN Architects, Seattle

Design team

Kenneth Ahn, Kamran Ardalan, Richard Barret, Herwing Baumgartner, Elisabeth Beasley, Helena Berge, Kirk Blaschke, Karl Blette, Rebecca Cotera, Jon Drezner, Jeff Guga, David Hardie, Leigh Jerrard, Michael Jobes, Naomi Langer, Gary Lundberg, Yanina Maniarres-Weeks, Brent Miller, Gaston Nogues, David Pakshong, Steven Pliam, CHristopher, Seals, Tadao Shimizu, Eva Sobesky, Randall Stout, Hiroshi Tokumaru, Lisa Towning, Scott Uriu, Jeff Wauer

Plastic models, rendering, visualization

Douglas Glenn, Bruce Shepard, Rick Smith

Art intervention

Trimpin [IF VI WAS IX]

ANNOTATIONS

The museum was to be dedicated to Jimi Hendrix, but the family has not granted the use of the name

CREDITS

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