Frank Gehry has been selected to design a memorial for President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Washington, DC. The memorial is planned for a four-acre site just off the National Mall on Independence Avenue, across from the National Air and Space Museum. Bustler
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Didn't they get the memo that Starchitecture is dead?
Didn't they get the memo that Gehry sucks?
I got the memo; It was inappropriate.
In a good way.
Pure laziness. It'll be 3 yrs late and 300% over budget.
Well, anything will be better than the FDR memorial with it's Disneyesque recreation of a time that thankfully is long past. Seriously, you may or may not like Gehry's work (I don't) but hanks to architects like him, stars or not, the public we design for has for the most part lost it's aversion to designs that break tradition, quaint habits and plain old boredom.
Hating Gehry is a just another form of intellectual masturbation. He's a sensualist in a rationalist's age.
This is good news.
Come on old man Gehry -- shock us!
Y-ike-s !!
I wish I was delusional and thought that shitty architecture could be good just because it opens up possibilities for the 'general public' to be 'tolerant' of 'innovative' design. Lets get a MVRDV project overe here.
There is nothing sensual about Gehry. Or practical or sometimes even functional. Intellectual masturbation? And yet you (gardenx) defend Gehry’s architectural masturbation? And his regurgitation of idiosyncratic forms that please no one but himself and the few unfortunate and oblivious suckers who still find his pastiche meaningful. How can we still stand for these empty and ridiculous buildings that lack any sort of principled thought, laudable idea, and completely disregard client, user, and budget. What I, perhaps, can’t understand more than the absurd deformities that Gehry violates our cities with are the people who hire and defend him.
Intellectual masturbation!?! Seriously!? How can we move forward in any cohesional direction if we cannot be critical and have any sort of intellectual discussion on the issues that affect our society? C'mon!
There is nothing sensual about Gehry. Or practical or sometimes even functional. Intellectual masturbation? And yet you (gardenx) defend Gehry’s architectural masturbation? And his regurgitation of idiosyncratic forms that please no one but himself and the few unfortunate and oblivious suckers who still find his pastiche meaningful. How can we still stand for these empty and ridiculous buildings that lack any sort of principled thought, laudable idea, and completely disregard client, user, and budget. What I, perhaps, can’t understand more than the absurd deformities that Gehry violates our cities with are the people who hire and defend him.
Intellectual masturbation!?! Seriously!? How can we move forward in any cohesional direction if we cannot be critical and have any sort of intellectual discussion on the issues that affect our society? C'mon!
I agree with the stament(s) ,"There is nothing sensual about Gehry. Or practical or sometimes even functional. Intellectual masturbation? And yet you (gardenx) defend Gehry’s architectural masturbation? And his regurgitation of idiosyncratic forms that please no one but himself and the few unfortunate and oblivious suckers who still find his pastiche meaningful. How can we still stand for these empty and ridiculous buildings that lack any sort of principled thought, laudable idea, and completely disregard client, user, and budget. What I, perhaps, can’t understand more than the absurd deformities that Gehry violates our cities with are the people who hire and defend him.
Intellectual masturbation!?! Seriously!? How can we move forward in any cohesional direction if we cannot be critical and have any sort of intellectual discussion on the issues that affect our society? C'mon!"
So what does torn cardboard waves rendered in metal/stone have to do with memorializing Eisenhower?
Hawthorn covers the GSA competition.
I think this is unbelievably ironic. Perhaps no architect has done more to disneyfy or make architecture as entertainment as has Gehry. So many of his projects are about entertaining, and you can make an argument for and against that (I'd strongly be against), but I would doubt there will be much less thought given to contemplating our last decent Republican president and much more given to interactive exhibits. Especially in an age of increasing frugality and the desire to return to practicality, and in the memory of a no-frills military man, the exuberant Gehry seems like a bad fit, except to bring in donor money.
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