Frank O Gehry...tonight in RVA
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- UHU0
tkmeister is that New Yorker article online? Doesnt seem to be at www.newyorker.com ?
- 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.
- Jaline0
glad you enjoyed yourself!
i gotta find myself one of these things to attend...
- 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.
- vburo0
i hate you.
- Jaline0
nice!
let us know how it went
- ornj0
I worked on his building at MIT, the Stata Center. It was intense. almost none of the walls are square with each other it seems. They had to bend iron and chisel the elevator shaft by hand when they messed it up. Eventually they had to hang down sheets on some walls to make them appear straight because people were getting sick.
- 3rr0r4040
WHAAAAT
what were u doing at MIT?
- mg330
Always been inspired by him. Not sure if I've ever mentioned it here, but I studied Architecture for 2 1/2 years before changing majors to Advertising. I have a Minor in Architecture actually.
Some people can't stand FOG and accuse him of doing the same thing with every project. He's locked into a style now, but he is to be praised for how he has pushed technology to create the architecture he does. I saw the FOG exhibit at the Guggenheim in NYC back in 2001. So many models of their work there, just awesome.
They created their own computer software in the beginning to be able to create the things they have. Pretty cool - can't do what you want conventionally so you go and make your own way of doing it.
- superbaka0
get over frank ghery.
- 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.
- ornj0
"WHAAAAT
what were u doing at MIT?
3rr0r404 "I was workin.
- 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!
- 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....
- Hans0
saw him on the simpsons a couple of weeks ago. funny haha
- 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...
- 3rr0r4040
u need to go to MIT to kno FOG;)
- 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 ... ?
- liquid0
interesting......I dont do that....
- 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.