He is grouchy, says a man who knows Frank Gehry well, when I ask him what to expect of my meeting with the architect. Grouchy, but sweet. I bear those words in mind as I am introduced to Gehry in the office of his Los Angeles studio, and explain in a super-polite way my role as the FT’s arts writer. — ft.com
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its quite funny, although the architect preemtively admonishes the author for thinking of him as a stararchitect and the author in turn suggestively admonishes preemptively us for the same, the architect as well as the author end up reinstating exactly the stararchitect status and cult, example:
- "He is grouchy" ie "had he not been a stararchitect, i would not have put up with the grumpiness and would have just called him an asshole"
-"“You are not going to call me a fucking ‘starchitect’? I hate that.” ie "i'm a stararchitect so i can be as abrupt and as grouchy as i want to be to you asshole journalists who keep on trying to undermine my uniqueness by categorizing me in such a bland and non-individualistic category: star architect"
I really really see no use for the article except to participate exactly in that same culture it implies it wants to avoid.
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