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TIME senior writer RICHARD LACAYO always seems to have one foot in our Nation section and the other in the Arts section. Those realms meld this week in his story on Frank Gehry, as Lacayo sizes up the architect's artistic and social impact. Not exactly a hardship assignment, the story required him to visit Gehry-designed structures across the globe, including those in Seattle as well as in Barcelona and, of course, Bilbao, Spain...
When his uproarious new building, the Experience Music Project, opens later this week in Seattle, it will be easy to forget that Frank Gehry, who is the world's most famous architect, was once just the world's most famous strange architect. That was in the 1980s, when to some people his angular rethinking looked all elbows. That was also when his mixture of high concept with cheap materials--chain link fencing, corrugated metal, pressed plywood--was getting his work labeled "populist," which generally means brainy but cheap. In 1981, when he was named Architect of the Year...
Hostilities erupted when McCready tried to shift from the meeting's open forum to begin a presentation of the architect's plans for the museum...
...Mather House: 1. The riot-proof monstrosity designed by a prison architect. 2. The box Dunster came...
Museum director Cuno gave a brief presentation on the current plans, saying that they were conceptual and still very flexible. He said that architect Renzo Piano's design would be sensitive to neighborhood needs...