Frank Gehry &  Robert Tannen: Art, Architecture & Ideas, is a book documenting the lifelong friendship and collaborative efforts of noted architects and friends Frank Gehry and Robert Tannen. The book features essays, personal notes, and collaborative and individual work in a range of media, including architectural models, sculpture, painting, printmaking, urban planning, and product design. Recognized as the defining architect of our times, Frank Gehry changed the cultural landscape with his designs for Walt Disney Counter Hall in Los Angeles and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, At ninety-five years old, he continues to evolve his architectural and part practices through the exploration of energy and dynamic movement. Robert Tannen’s career includes sculpture, painting, conceptual art, and urban planning. After coming to Biloxi, Mississippi to create a masterplan for the Gulf Coast post-Hurricane Camille, he relocated to New Orleans where he master planned the second span of the Mississippi River Bridge, and was a founder of the New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, and continues to this day his distinctive practice of urbanism, art, and community activism. 

"If you look at a great work of art in bronze from 600 B.C. and it makes you cry, some artist way back when were able to transmit emotion through time and space over years to today," Gehry says. He believes architecture can do that, too. - NPR 

"Robert Tannen's art has always circled the idea of disaster. Sometimes his sculptures have a practical application: together with Frank Gehry, Tannen designed a form of modular emergency housing based on shotgun-house building blocks. In other cases, Tannen’s sculptures have taken the form of obtuse, awkwardly placed objects that force the viewer to ask difficult questions. -Matilda Bathurst for ARTnews Magazine 

“People are often looking over their shoulders worried about their place in the pecking order, but Tannen doesn’t do that,” Gehry says. “Approval doesn’t seem to be important to him.” -Kristine McKenna Los Angeles Times 

“I (Frank Gehry) don’t think you have to spend egregious amounts of money to make buildings that are good for the community, good for our world, that are interesting, and that are humanly accessible,” he says. “I don’t think you have to pay a lot extra. You just have to want to do it.” - Time Magazine