Frank Gehry "Today’s Architecture is Pure Shit"

[solo]

http://www.archdaily.com/560673/frank-gehry-claims-today-s-architecture-is-mostly-pure-shit/?utm_source=dlvr.it%26amp;utm_medium=twitter

[Rich O Brien]

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder

[srx]

...and he is an important part of it.

[Mike Lucey]

The older one gets, the more inclined we are to call it as we really see it.

[JQL]

As Fernando Távora a late but respected portuguese architect and master of Siza Vieira, once told:

"In architecture, the opposite is also true!"

The thruth here is that his truth is true to him an to many but not the true thruth!

Best regards,

João

[kaas]

Remarkable comment coming from Gehry. I remember a quote by him in the documentary 'Sketches of Frank Gehry': "it must look more silly!"

Still, I do like some of his designs. I visited his Dusseldorf project twice and those buildings are, even for my non-architects friends, a joy to behold.

[juju]

looks like his arthritis problem persists...

[david_h]

Well . ..at least he said it was "pure" Sh** and not that genetically modified kind.

[solo]

@david_h said:

Well . ..at least he said it was "pure" Sh** and not that genetically modified kind.

or the bovine kind

[david_h]

Is he really one to talk?

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[elmer]

[Box]

That crumpled paper thing is too close to reality. I was at a dinner where a half million dollar sculpture was proposed by folding and twisting the paper foil from the inside of a cigarette packet. It was commissioned on the spot.

[pbacot]

If you see his documentary, he does crumple paper.

Just to say... that's not what he said. He said "98% of what is built". He didn't call it architecture. It's an offhand comment that doesn't really beg analysis. My house is part of this, for example. Not really architecture, or even a nice build, but it works OK. Not pure s#!t.

[faust07]

I hope that in 30 years I can still respond as cool as him. I think his 98% are easily grasped from the air in the rapid response to the press reporter.

[jeff hammond]

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he has a couple of designs here now.

[Mike Amos]

I look at things quite simply because I am not a trained architect and cannot calim to be talking from 'knowledge'. I simply ask myself if the different styling cues add to the building either in looks or strength and if I cannot find any of those on the internet, dismiss it. As long as it does not detract from the basic ability to perform the job intended of it.