Gehry Technologies (GT), a global leader in applying technology to building industry challenges, today announced that Co-founder and Chairman, Frank Gehry, has brought together the world's most distinguished architects and designers to form a strategic alliance furthering his vision to transform the building industry and the practice of design. As part of today's announcement, this core group of renowned architects will also serve on Gehry Technologies' board of advisors. — gehrytechnologies.com
Besides Frank Gehry himself, initial alliance and board members include: Zaha Hadid & Patrik Schumacher (Zaha Hadid Architects ), Greg Lynn, Moshe Safdie, Ben van Berkel (UNStudio), Wolf D. Prix (COOP HIMMELB(L)AU), David Rockwell (Rockwell Group), David Childs (SOM), Matthias Schuler (TRANSSOLAR Energietechnik), Richard Saul Wurman, Massimo Colomban (Permasteelisa.com Group), and Laurie Olin.
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Very funny and 80's like group sex. I wonder how many unemployed non-leader architects each of these leader dudes worth? Hey, top down is over men!
maybe hold off furthering your own visions and helping younger architects further theirs.
"I am dedicated to giving architects better control of the process so they can deliver the fruits of their imagination." Yeah, what an asshole. Horrible idea.
sounds like survivor...which makes me wonder where or what is the island and am i on it? am i in danger of getting kicked off?
Why Harry Cobb (PCF), is missing from this group? He is one of the most brilliant among all architect leaders, along with David Childs.
Emad
What is Greg Lynn doing there? He must be the unbuilt work component
This is our Future...just another old men club!
Humm....we have to get this unpaid internship mainstream, or the profession is just going to go to Hell!....Now that is the kind of statement I can hear them saying. David Childs most likely is lobbying to use the SOM computer software while Ghery is just being a pain in the ashe...saying the "French Do it Better." Who knows what Lynn...is doing, most likely teaching and leading the young down the wrong road.
I don't get all the Gehry-hating. When someone asked him recently what he was most proud of in his career, his answer was that everyone in his office gets paid. Not Bilbao, not the EMP, not revolutionizing architectural software. His greatest accomplishment, in his own opinion, was that all of his employees were able to make a living working in his office. What's wrong with engaging in the profession?
Certain those leaders who were part of the CIAM movement are rolling in their graves - says how far backwards architecture has really gone when with all the crisis, austerity and poverty facing the word, they still gather together to prioritize the instrumentation of the machine - One should question if the profession of architecture is no different than the financiers and banker - wake up archinecters...it's your future they are playing with.
They're only challenge is to "¥€$" and how to make their deep pockets richer.
One should be happy not to be within this photo which should be highly embarrassing in the near future -[thanks again Rem for showing your leadership here]
OK I'm really late to this thread but "transform(ing) the building industry" is a change that one hopes can only be good. The way things get built in this world is so often a totally ass-backward process, and the architect's role in improving that process has been pretty ineffective until now.
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