Before there was Gehry, there was I.M. Pei. He was the talk of the architectural world, all sorts of his buildings were built because they were pretty and sweeping in scale.
No one thought to ask the future users of the buildings about how functional they would be. Triangular classrooms with no windows, wind tunnels that forced exterior doors shut, or open, leaks or simple cost overruns were all ignored by the people funding the projects.
Like Pei, Gehry has simply found a way to sell his magnificent clothes to a set of donors and administrators who are so spellbound by his visions that they never talk to the ultimate users until it is too late.
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The Emperor Has No Clothes
Date: 2007-11-07 09:24 am (UTC)No one thought to ask the future users of the buildings about how functional they would be. Triangular classrooms with no windows, wind tunnels that forced exterior doors shut, or open, leaks or simple cost overruns were all ignored by the people funding the projects.
Like Pei, Gehry has simply found a way to sell his magnificent clothes to a set of donors and administrators who are so spellbound by his visions that they never talk to the ultimate users until it is too late.