Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Hmm, Perhaps Frank Gehry IS the perfect architect for Bruce Ratner

I was watching "End of Suburbia" the other night and remebered that one man interviewed, James Kunstler was a harsh critic of the 'starchitects' whose work he correctly described as agrophobic and well, just plain gaudy....he has an 'eyesore of the month..which included some of 'genius' frank gehry's work:


Eyesore of the Month

October 2005

  
 
The Peter B. Lewis Building for Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management. Architect: Frank Gehry. If your dog had a tumor like this the vets would just shake their heads and put him to sleep. The design follows the logic of cancer: invade and overwhelm the host organism. It's appropriate that this building houses the business school, because it aptly expresses the disfigurement of American economic practice in our time: banality meets pathology in a tragic duet.



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