Frank O Gehry...tonight in RVA
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- auricom0
wow, my spelling is awful tonight. my bad.....
dammit, lowes is closed, those things need to be open 24 hrs. i need more clamps.
- Jaline0
glad you enjoyed yourself!
i gotta find myself one of these things to attend...
- auricom0
well just got back from the lecture and......i don't care what anyone says, the mans a genius. it was very intertaining, very funny man.
locked into a style.....well yeah, that's who he is, that is his style just like any other artist or designer. each of us has our own style that takes years to develop. once you achieve that, then that is what you are known for.
i don't just love his finished product, i love what he does to get there. as he mentioned tonight, he doesn't like books on his work because it doesn't portray the process, it shows the finished product that can sometimes be lifeless. it's about the process of doing and getting to the final stage that carries or embodies the work.
yes of course his firm uses computers to help produce his work but like many of us face, the computer can sometime make things too easy which takes the life out of creating something. it has to start from your mind then flow through to your hands rather then letting a program to the steps for you. with my work the computer is the last step, the last tool.
gee can't tell i just came from his lecture can you....i'm very inspired by not only this mans work but he himself. i've always loved the process rather then the ending. ok, time to go to lowes to get some supplies....it's time to build.
- UHU0
tkmeister is that New Yorker article online? Doesnt seem to be at www.newyorker.com ?
- vburo0
yes.. shit.. we were talking about gehry here ok?
does he get some golden girls screaming at his lectures?
;P
- tkmeister0
there was a pretty good article on koolhaas in New Yorker magazine last month.
- Anarchitect0
i've seen koolhaas lecture twice. and well, he definitely has stage presence like an international design rockstar.
tikal2k
(Apr 16 05, 18:18)I saw japanese interns screaming like horny groupies in a Koolhaas lecture.
I shit you not...
- tikal2k0
i've seen koolhaas lecture twice. and well, he definitely has stage presence like an international design rockstar.
- Anarchitect0
masturbation intellectuelle.
pas architecture
- niconico0
bleh.
gehry certainly pushes the technical limits of his projects, but there is usually little or no substance to back them up.
his buildings fall into the architectural category of "Building as Object" - not always a good bin to be in.
- liquid0
interesting......I dont do that....
- Solid0
Frank Gehry and Rem Koolhaas are fairly prominent architects - if you pick up any of the major design/style mags on a regular basis your sure to have heard of them ... ?
- 3rr0r4040
u need to go to MIT to kno FOG;)
- liquid0
ok who in this thread went for a BFA or somee other kind of design degree....maybe I missed out by not going cause I dont know any of these people of who you speak...
- Hans0
saw him on the simpsons a couple of weeks ago. funny haha
- vburo0
in that latest book from Phaidon famous architects pick works of their favorite architects, and for instance Rem Koolhaas doesn't even get one mention over there..
i dunno about Gehry yet i only read a review about the book so far...
but there's enfants terribles in every profession i guess....
- tkmeister0
for what he does, we got it give it to him. but like some of you said, he's stuck in that style.
i've also studied architecture and i've heard him in a lecture 10yrs ago. he wasn't a very good lecturer though.
also his interior space doesn't work very well. where as rem koolhaus spend more time designing program and challenge the way building works, gehry kinda ignores that aspect. his buidling is all about exterior and form.
anyways, have fun at his lecture!
- ornj0
"WHAAAAT
what were u doing at MIT?
3rr0r404 "I was workin.
- Meeklo0
I herd the same thing, he is not very liked in the architecture comunity.
But the reason that he does what he does, its becasuse he is also a sculpture, and he he is mixing both paths on his projects.
I saw the computer software on some documentary on tv about him. I still think he is great, If you see one of his buildings around chances are that you will know he was the architect behind the project.
- superbaka0
get over frank ghery.