Article: Gehry goes Geometric!

spencer — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:14:30 +0000

Frank O. Gehry's new building at Princeton University - the Lewis Library - is nearing completion. Princeton's website has an article describing the new building and giving us a sneak peak inside. I hate to prejudge this building, but from the pictures, I worry that this is going to be even worse of an occupant experience than MIT's Stata Center. The bright contrasting colors of the interior and the sharp dramatic angles seem to go one step beyond the Stata, which looked like it was falling down, instead, the exterior of the Lewis Library looks like a jumble of child's block swept under a rug and the inside looks like something from a medieval view of hell.

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Article: Gehry goes Geometric!

A portrait of the Architect as an Egotist.

spencer — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:54:13 +0000

Frank Lloyd Wright thought that he was the messiah of architecture and that his work would change the face of the earth. Ayn Rand immortalized this part of his personality in The Fountainhead. Buckminster Fuller believed that if we changed out bodies to his Dymaxion Rhythym and lived in Dymaxion Houses we could produce more and prosper. His geodesic domes never really caught on, but one did land a prominent place in the most prosperous and happiest place on earth. Le Corbusier imagined himself to be a new Vitruvius reinventing the discourse of architecture and the human habitation environment. By the end of his century (the 20th) society had rejected his massive housing blocks as dehumanizing and there was a massive resurgence in classical pastiche. Now Frank Gehry has envisioned himself as the new Pope, when working ex-catia he is a man that can do no wrong. In essence, no one can hate him even when they appear to be mad at him. According to an article in the New York Magazine, Mr Gehry refuses to accept that the recent protests about his new Atlantic Yards development have anything to do with him. Instead they are directed towards the developer. [...]

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A portrait of the Architect as an Egotist.

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Article: Gehry goes Geometric!

A portrait of the Architect as an Egotist.