Frank Gehry "Today’s Architecture is Pure Shit"
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...and he is an important part of it.
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The older one gets, the more inclined we are to call it as we really see it.
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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
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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.
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looks like his arthritis problem persists...
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Well . ..at least he said it was "pure" Sh** and not that genetically modified kind.
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@david_h said:
Well . ..at least he said it was "pure" Sh** and not that genetically modified kind.
or the bovine kind
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Is he really one to talk?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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he has a couple of designs here now.
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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.
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