is now picking up on the relationship between Pitt and Gehry because the apprentice is joining the design team for the redevelopment of the Hove seafront project in Brighton, UK, where Pitt will design a restaurant and a Penthouse which is rumoured to become his own.
Also... Star Wars actor Hayden Christensen revealed he was considering giving up acting for architecture
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WTF? he thinks Gehry and Koolhaas are sweet, so give him a multi-million dollar design project?
"The actor is not a qualified designer; he studied journalism at the University of Missouri before embarking on a film career. But in interviews he has often talked about his passion for architecture and the work of leading practitioners such as Gehry and Rem Koolhaas."
" the Hollywood star wants to reshape Hove as a member of the design team behind one of Britain's most daring architectural projects"
Once again proving it not what you know but who you know. Too bad neither of them are actualytaking the time to go through the schooling and acreditation. Could just see a professor or guest juror coming up and ripping piece of a model off repositioning it and then saying stick to acting.
Of course having the moey they have if they had brains they would just become developers.
Go figure.
Honestly I'm just totally jealous... who wouldn't want to be able to walk in off the street with no qualifications or education and be taken under the wing of the most well-known architect of our time? Then to be put on the design team for projects like this?
Can't blame Pitt... But I don't get why Gehry would do it... Its kind of an insult to the profession, like if George Clooney showed up at a hospital with no training and asked to assist on a triple bypass surgery because he "finds the whole thing really fascinating"...
Then again, maybe this could help with recruitment into the field... Maybe there will be an "Architects: Special Design Unit" TV drama coming soon to ABC...
two words:
pubblicity stunt
i cannot believe they will let that goon anywhere near a design job
I dont think Gehry will give him that much responsibility, plus he is going to buy the loft that he's gonna design.
it's funny how these people always turn up in the news somehow just before (yeah, like the Donald) a new movie comes out or a season finale.
the beauty and the beast???
i think this falls under architects who know how to market themselves. brad pitt as your tool... can't get better publicity than that.
celebrities... the amount of money, access, and power they attain is disturbing to me. i'm going to go vomit now.
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