Author(s):
1. Nikola Cekić, Arhitektonsko-građevinski fakultet Niš , Serbia

Abstract:
At the beginning of the 1960s, a powerful urban creator, the Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, appeared in the world of architecture, whose designs of public buildings, with complex spatial geometry, moved the previous conventional norms and created icono-architectural, artistically attractive forms in space. The designed facades of the buildings, featured titanium concave curves, light-reflecting polygonal brushed steel sheets produced by the company "A. Zahner" in Kansas City. With them, he achieved charming, attractive looks of volume in the space, suppressing the old artefact forms. With his unique, captivating vision and fantastic synthetic approach, he permanently changed the cultural-aesthetic and design view of new materially contemporary urban transformations. Steel-titanium sheets with excellent properties: high resistance to corrosion, and physical-mechanical resistance to air, energy and chemical impacts at high and low temperatures, brought an innovation of historical urban planning significance. By implementing complex spatial geometry, defying the laws of gravity and established conventional norms in urban architecture, resulted in unique visual sculptural-artistic possessed only by the most famous structures in the world. In chronological order, the paper presents a combination of ten of Gehry's most famous archi-sculptural buildings, which at the end of the previous century and the beginning of the present century pushed the boundaries of planning and design. Keywords: titanium material, facade panels, concave curves, archisculpturality, complex geometry

Key words:
titanium material,facade panels,concave curves,archisculpturality,complex geometry

Thematic field:
SYMPOSIUM A - Science of matter, condensed matter and physics of solid states

Date of abstract submission:
29.06.2024.

Conference:
Contemporary Materials 2024 - Savremeni Materijali