This reminded me the story. People still won't believe me when I admiringly say Frank inhaled. I did too, and four-five of my classmates inhaled as well. We all smoked a joint together at the Gund Hall. I do have living witnesses. Year was 1980, when the true bad boy then, Frank Gehry, was teaching a shopping mall studio to sober Harvard students who thought their school was the most important place in American Architecture. We were a group of students from SCI Arc, a leaky corrugated metal building in Santa Monica where the legend says they made LSD. Cambridge was our short stop driving a big American car from New York, where we were for a semester. It involved a spontaneously arranged meeting to participate in a day long discussions with Frank's students, see some low-end architecture in poor neighborhoods, and to put down some east coast booze. Those days Gehry still had a bit of truck driver in him and the reefer was his. We were wild and those were the west coast years in American Architecture with FOG in the front.
Orhan is blogging his thoughts and impressions late at night.
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tell me more about the LSD, weed is legal now.
Ready to "turn on, tune in, drop out" ?
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The LSD would actually make a lot of sense if it factored into FOG's form-making
Sounds like the first paragraph of a very interesting book, more please :)
would be interesting to know what's the drug of choice of today's starchitects. Can't just be ego.
Money.
Did he ever exhale?
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