Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Frank Gehry: The City and Music is the result of a unique collaboration between the architect and leading critic Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe. It focuses on two projects, Gehry's unrealised proposal for the rehabilitation of Berlin's Museum Island and his soon to be completed Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, while discussing other projects such as the Pavilion for the Performing Arts in Concord, California, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, and the Experience Music Project in Seattle. Gehry's much debated relationship to Minimalist sculpture, use of new building materials and attitude to tradition, are discussed with regard to his belief in architecture as a democratic practice which is at once practical and expressive.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Foreword (p. ix)
• List of Illustrations (p. xi)
• Acknowledgements (p. xv)
• Introduction (p. 1)
• Chapter 1 Improbable Logic (p. 13)
• Chapter 2 Berlin: The Preservation of Insulation (p. 31)
• Chapter 3 Los Angeles: Music and the Idea of the Centre (p. 63)
• Chapter 4 Conclusion: The Practicality of Planes Taking Flight in Mass, Towards Colour (p. 101)
• Index (p. 129)