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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire
Absurd, of course. Have you ever been to a concert at Disney Hall? Been to Bilbao? To 8 Spruce in NY? Have you actually spent time in any of his buildings? Wright was an iconoclast too, so was Philip Johnson. Some of all three of these architects' buildings are bombs, but there's a reason the designers are famous, and it wasn't because they "hated people," whatever you mean by that.
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I have spent time in a couple of his buildings and you have a point. It's better to be inside one so you aren't forced to look at it. Reminds me of the French writer Guy de Maupassant who used to eat at the Eiffel Tower restaurant every day and a person finally asked him once, "If you hate the Eiffel Tower so much, why do you eat there?" and he replied something to the effect "It's the only place in Paris I can eat lunch without looking at it."
I'm not an expert in architecture, but I know that Gehry's buildings produce negative feelings, thoughts, vibrations or any other word like those from a Thesaurus, when I see one in person or in photographs.
So let someone else who is versed in architecture talk about him:
https://articlelink/frank-gehry-is-still-the-worlds-worst-living-architect-1523113249
While it's been widely known for at least a decade that Frank Gehry is the world's worst living architect, it's not entirely clear why some people—mostly very rich clients—haven't picked up on this yet. The utterly god awful Biomuseo in Panama, an eco-discovery center that cost at least $60 million and took a decade to construct, is only the most recent case in point.
Gehry long ago stopped pursuing any interesting material or tectonic experimentation—and he used to be an interesting architect!—to become the multi-billion dollar equivalent of a Salvador Dalì poster tacked to the wall in a stoned lacrosse player's dorm room, an isn't-it-trippy pile of pseudo-psychedelic bullshit that everyone but billionaire urban developers can see through right away. What's particularly frustrating about Gehry's career is that he's somehow meant to be cool, a kind of sci-fi architect for the Millennial generation, a Timothy Leary of CAD; but he's Guy Fieri, his buildings hair-gelled monsters of advanced spatial douchebaggery.
His work is badly constructed, ravey-balls hair metal, a C.C. DeVille guitar solo that cannot—will not—end until the billionaire clients who keep paying for this shit can be stopped. Worse, no matter how much diagrammatic handwaving someone like architectural theorist extraordinaire Peter Eisenman can do—and he can do an awful lot of it—to convince you that Gehry is, or was once long ago, on to something interesting, these buildings are not even compelling from a theoretical standpoint. So, yeah, he used software normally found in airplane design—great. That's awesome. I can imagine amazing things coming out of such an irreverent mixing of design tools.
But the results are just crumpled Reynold's Wrap on an otherwise white-bread interior, a boring, room-by-room grid surrounded by hair spray, like some lunatic version of Phyllis Diller blown up to the size of a city block and frozen mid-stroke.
Gehry has already built the worst new residential building in New York City of the past five years [IS THIS THE ONE YOU MENTIONED
GW? 8 SPRUCE?], and now he's on his way to ruin part of downtown Berlin with a faux-golden Accessorize trinket you'd expect to find at a roller rink in suburban Wisconsin, a hypertrophied JWoww unsuspecting Germans can someday live within.
But it's no use. We're stuck now. It's like being forced to watch M. Night Shyamalan films when you were hoping for David Cronenberg, or being stuck in a room with Steve Vai when you thought you were listening to Andrés Segovia.
No doubt, in a city council out there even as I type this [WEST HOLLYWOOD], some doe-eyed general manager is shaking up a can of crazy string and preparing to enfecalize an entire neighborhood near you with the pink slime of another Frank Gehry, a man for whom architecture is all McNuggets, all the time.
The tech world might have Moore's Law, but architecture has found its own unbreakable rule: year after year, Frank Gehry will always get worse. --Geoff Manaugh
And if you want to broaden the scale, read this:
Why You Hate Contemporary Architecture
(And if you don’t, why you should…)
by Brianna Rennix & Nathan J. Robinson
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/...y-architecture
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Originally Posted by sopas ej
Oh, do you mean the building he did for MIT? That's too bad; I actually liked that building, it breaks up the monotony of the boxes around it.
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This reminds me of the monologue Jessica Lange had in TOOTSIE, when she was in her childhood room and her mother asked her what kind of wallpaper she'd like to have and she came up with all these ideas and notions and her mother then explained to her that she could have that if she wanted, but reminded her that what she chose is something she'd see every morning when she woke up and every night when she went to bed and all the other times she'd be in her room...dreaming...or with friends or by herself doing schoolwork.
Gehry buildings might "break up the monotony", but most of life is monotony and his buildings do nothing to inspire one in those moments or comfort them or give a sense of possibility. They give a sense of warning signs like what that sign says over the castle entrance in The Wizard of Oz: "Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here."
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Originally Posted by Lwize
I understand some folks don't get Frank Gehry, but I love his work.
I'd like to see him redo the Washington Monument!
While in Prague last month, I finally got to see this FG stunner up close:
(Photographed and hosted by me)
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...something you'd see every morning when you wake up and every night when you went to bed and all the other times of your day...
I'd
like to get Frank Gehry. Get him away from working and into retirement.
Seriously, who would want to see this building
e v e r y...s i n g l e...d a y . . .