Case Study: Festival Disney, Dinseyland Paris. Frank Gehry, 1992.

"I had my own language, and because this project, I suppose, grew out of my body of work, it was sort of recognizable; it had its own sensibility. So it was complete and compact." - Frank Gehry interview

"What they wanted to do was pretty straight forward and honest. They wanted it to be specially lit and to deal ith the french skies which are mostly grey in winter. They wanted to do something that would light up this place, starting at 4p.m., and make it come to life. That's when I did the colonnade with the stainless steel and the light. The only pieces I took from theming was when we started the project, when somebody talked about the railroad and whether Festival Disney could have something to do with the history of the area and relate to the railroad. The railroad sounded interesting to me because so much passion is evoked in going to stations...That, for me, was the essance of Walk Disney...I decided to make the colonnade of Festival Disney perpendicular to the station, to the tracks. Its almost as though my row of columns was the residue of some old power station that related to the railroad. That's how I hooked into it. "- Frank Gehry interview

"He had been strongly influenced by artists...often preferred buildings in an incomplete state of construction to the finished products"

Image & Text reference:

Edited by Karal Ann Marling, Designing Disney’s theme parks : the architecture of reassurance. Flammarion 1997, Pages 209-213

Marian Moffett, Michael W. Fazio, Lawrence Wodehouse, A world history of architecture. 2003