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Re:Frank Gehry has a few things to get off his chest by zemvpferreira on Thursday July 14, 2022 @12:44PM (#32098396)
Interesting to look at and liveable are orthogonal qualities at best and opposite at worst. One of those is truly important for inhabitants of a building, while the other is truly important to the architect's reputation. I'll let you guess which I think is which.

Personally, I'm tired of architecture being treated as a grotesque form of sculpture.

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Re:Frank Gehry has a few things to get off his chest by frognumber on Thursday July 14, 2022 @03:42PM (#32100626)
One of these is not like the other.

I've been in a few IM Pei buildings, and even worked in one. They were pleasant places to be and functional. I have the utmost respect for him. He's had a few buildings where the function was art (e.g. galleries), so they didn't follow that, but it made sense. He's had a few failures too.

But on the whole, I have the utmost respect for him as an architect.

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Re:Frank Gehry has a few things to get off his chest by zemvpferreira on Friday July 15, 2022 @10:47AM (#32108728)
Good to hear he's one of the orthogonals then :) at least occasionally
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