Gehry: The Greatest Architect On Earth (?)

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I have a confession. I’ve seen Frank Gehry naked. And I liked it.

More than once, actually. But the first time, as it goes with such things, was the best. I was in Cambridge four years ago, on a tour of new buildings at MIT. It was a nice fall day and the sky was blue, and there it was: Gehry’s Stata Center, structure up but still skinless—a looming block of bare angular slabs and fat, round, gloriously butt-naked concrete columns. The sight brought to mind the curious history of modern fascination with ruins—a favorite fallback for architects of the Rudolphian Brutalist school (peaking, appropriately enough, in the years following the Cuban missile crisis). But there was also the simple Tinkertoy appeal of the thing. Gehry at his best is like an old boy playing. And there, before that play had to adapt too much—to function, to the demands of his style—it was intoxicating.

There are no “ideas” in a Gehry building—his work is, above all, a rebuke to those other formalist architects (Koolhaas, Eisenman, Holl, etc.)

...in Gehry’s buildings structure and surface rarely unite. So as a building goes up, it always loses something in translation.

But from the evidence of the finished buildings themselves we can see Gehry’s true priority.

Metropolis Mag...

Na minha, honesta opinião, as principais razões para odiar Gehry.

[3CPO]

Creio que se aplica a mesma teoria que para o trabalho da Zaha Hadid... Quem nao gosta, come menos... Nao me identico muito com o seu trabalho na medida em que se torna extremamente previsivel... Folheamos a El Croquis e levamos uma dose de extrema de organicidade, revestida com os mais diversos tipos de chapas (de preferencia bem polidas) Penso que é mais uma questao de gosto do que qualquer outra coisa... Abracos