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The Gehry House located in Santa Monica, California, is the house of the famous modern architect, Frank_O._Gehry.

This unusual two-story architecture was renovated twice by Frank O. Gehry himself. Under the first renovation 1977-78, He gave the house a dramatic change while leaving the old house intact "to maintain a tension between the two by having one define the other, and to have the feeling that the old house was intact within the new house, from the outside and from the inside." During the first renovation, "he wrapped the existing structure in layers of corrugated metal and chain link, and pierced the outer skin with large glass apertures rotated off square." On the attic level, he wrapped the structure with the chain-linked screens were placed to reveal the original structure. Interior spaces were more opened up. Frank Gehry decorated the interior with the plywood that gave a feeling of unfinished architecture. He described this relationship of the Gehry house's exterior with its interior as "the 'incomplete' core... enclosed by its intact, finished exterior, now partly internalized by the thirds layer, its contemporary mantle." The second renovation took place in 1991-92 to accommodate the family's changing needs. Frank Gehry inserted a lap pool and transformed the garage in a guest house.