Comments on: Gehry Dreams Downtown LA http://www.psfk.com/2006/04/gehry_dreams_do.html Ideas & Trends Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:50:05 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: lazlo pink http://www.psfk.com/2006/04/gehry_dreams_do.html/comment-page-1#comment-2206 lazlo pink Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-2206 <p>i find gehry's work ugly. for all of his team's material innovations, they make ugly buildings with pointless protrusions and twists of form that signify nothing. of course, my perceptions are probably coloured by having met the man. i found him surly, obnoxious and unpleasant. as an undergrad i was employed in the school's av department. i was given the assignment of following and documenting gehry, when he came to deliver a guest lecture. maybe he was having an off day. but on his off days, he's an ass.</p> <p>on second thought, no, my perceptions are clear. i do find his work is stark, unfriendly, jarring and unattractive. the triumph of form over substance. gehry loveres may now commence to bashing me. cheers.</p> i find gehry’s work ugly. for all of his team’s material innovations, they make ugly buildings with pointless protrusions and twists of form that signify nothing. of course, my perceptions are probably coloured by having met the man. i found him surly, obnoxious and unpleasant. as an undergrad i was employed in the school’s av department. i was given the assignment of following and documenting gehry, when he came to deliver a guest lecture. maybe he was having an off day. but on his off days, he’s an ass.

on second thought, no, my perceptions are clear. i do find his work is stark, unfriendly, jarring and unattractive. the triumph of form over substance. gehry loveres may now commence to bashing me. cheers.

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