Re:Frank Gehry has a few things to get off his chest
by AlbertCory on Thursday July 14, 2022 @12:32PM
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Frank Lloyd Wright groupie here: I've been to Oak Park, the Robie House, Fallingwater, the Johnson Wax headquarters, and Taliesyn (WI).
He was certainly an arrogant asshole. Like Steve Jobs, he inspired a lot of people who thought that just being an arrogant asshole was the secret sauce.
His buildings were also poorly made and required endless renovation just to be usable. But they were beautiful, and they integrated with their surroundings (OK, except for Taliesyn, which was uninhabitable in the winter). Those two things are not true for Gehry.
I went with my brother (not a builder or architect) to Taliesyn. The first thing he noticed was how the glass wall corners didn't meet flush.
He was certainly an arrogant asshole. Like Steve Jobs, he inspired a lot of people who thought that just being an arrogant asshole was the secret sauce.
His buildings were also poorly made and required endless renovation just to be usable. But they were beautiful, and they integrated with their surroundings (OK, except for Taliesyn, which was uninhabitable in the winter). Those two things are not true for Gehry.
I went with my brother (not a builder or architect) to Taliesyn. The first thing he noticed was how the glass wall corners didn't meet flush.