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Uh Frank, your corrugated Wiggle Stool retails for about five hundred bucks.

http://www.momastore.org/museum/moma/ProductDisplay_Wiggle%20Stool_10451_10001_43863

Loved the Sidney Pollack documentary though! Extra points for letting him free access to your analyst, and for persuading Sidney to make it.

He is so deluded. Think of how many cultural and academic groups' endowments he's sucked the life out of with maintenance on his gazillion dollar metal clone-azoids?

I'm glad to see that I wouldn't have been the first post a negative comment.

Oh please! His overly conceptual architectural drivel is anything but simple. Blech! Can't stand him. Now he is trying to ruin Brooklyn with his crap! No thank you! Take your cardboard and shove it, Frank!

Negative enough for ya? ;p

This guy looks just like Madoff in that pic. He's even got the same pants:

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/03/we_never_thought_bernie_was_go.html

I love how people can rip him for being overly expensive at the same time he's talking about creating something new to address the frugality of the times.

Yes, his wiggle furniture is just as expensive as any other designer furniture. But that is a past design he probably doesnt even own the rights to anymore (hello Vitra!)

Just like Grcic doing the foldable chair for $100 if Ghery wants to do cheap furniture he can.

Some designs move me more than others, like the amphitheatre in Chicago and the Tiffany jewelry line, and although it's not my favorite I think the EMP structure does a fair enough job of visually illustrating the work of Jimi Hendrix.

Aside from his accomplishments, what really stood out in the article to me is that he is still working full time and he is 80 years old! It was saddening to read that he does not believe he'll ever realize his dream of moving to Paris. Even those with presumably the most resources cannot always accomplish everything they desire.

i work in frank gehry's stata center (and run tours! we try to gloss over all of the leak markers :)

i love the building; it's a stimulating and exciting place to come to work every day. and i think frank has a huge talent - but i think he's let himself rest on his laurels and get stuck, to a certain extent. stata is a kind of recycling of past projects that doesn't really fit the needs of the lab as perfectly as it could have. that's echoed to me in his feeling that he can't move to paris: no one is ever stuck (and it's not as if the money's an issue, so why not?)

i also take exception at the idea that he is the most famous current architect; i think it depends on who you ask! i'm much more taken with renzo piano, and i have to say i hadn't heard of frank gehry before i moved here and interviewed at csail a year ago.