Does the 85 year old Frank Gehry owe an apology for this statement?
Ali Heshmati
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Ali Heshmati
Award-Wining Architect, AIA |PhD Candidate, Architecture+Applied Neuroscience |Member of the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture, ANFA |Keynote on Impact of Architecture on, Mental Health, Circadian System + Sleep
According to the Guardian (UK) Frank Gehry, one our contemporary master architects, got irritated at a press conference this last Thursday which in turn cause him to flip the bird at one journalist and responding harshly to another question. He later apologized for his statement and behavior. To the second question he replied: "Let me tell you one thing. In this world we are living in, 98% of everything that is built and designed today is pure shit." "There's no sense of design, no respect for humanity or for anything else. They are damn buildings and that's it."
My question is, Is he not right? He maybe exaggerating with the "98% of everything" but in aggregate is he not telling the truth? I would like to hear from all of you!
Integrative Psychotherapist and Trauma Therapist
8 年Frank Gehry has a very good point!
Of course 98% of the buildings we see are "pure shit". But not for the reason Guery thinks about.Why do all cities want "Disney Concert Hall" or "Balboa". It is an attraction that brings in the tourists. The form is beautiful inside and out, but are all similar "Party Dresses". There will be no differentiation s in its characteristics for factory or department store. Formal differentiations are there but still those are the forms he likes and thinks about before the very originality of each building should permeate. In these days “The Star Architects” go to a factory with party dresses on. “Sculptural” is the only nice word that I can think of for their BUILDINGS!!! After the failure of the Modernism, we just gave up on our social, cultural, economic responsibilities. IN MY OPINION NO MORE HUMANITY THERE
PRINCIPAL, M O GEORGE, ARCHITECT. CEO- MOGHDCP LTD, MOG MEDIA, ECSTASY DESSERTS.
9 年Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones! Nuff said.
“Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.” - John Muir
10 年My two cents: Anyone who has driven across the "modern American landscape" would be hard pressed to disagree... in my estimation 98% is a little low. As for those who think Gehry's work is included in that percentage? Couldn't we say that about elements of any great architect's (either the present or past) body of work? (see FLW's Price Tower: a master pile of uselessness). I would dream of being called "overrated." : )
Turley Design
10 年He is absolutely right!!