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LA Event: Free Frank Gehry lecture at Hammer Museum
Sunday April 6, 2008

040408gehry.jpgThis Sunday, April 6, 2008 there's a free lecture with renowned architect Frank Gehry and scholar/conductor Leon Botstein. The lecture will take place at the Hammer Museum in LA...

According to the notice from Flavorpill:

"Steve Martin famously said that talking about music is like dancing about architecture; tonight at the Hammer, audiences finally get to see that idea (almost) in action, as unpredictable architect Frank Gehry has it out with Bard College president and renowned classical-music scholar/conductor Leon Botstein, who commissioned Gehry to design Bard's performing-arts center in 1996. Expect an entertaining chat about the progressive relationship between architects and cultural institutions, how to deal with large-room acoustics, and what they really think of the new LACMA down the street.- Shana Nys Dambrot"

via Hatch design blog

Comments (4)

Phenomenal building. really. so unique.

posted by Oneformybaby on 2008-04-04 12:23:55
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I find most of his work rather stifling and really stiff. The only building that is really organic is the EMP. The rest pales in comparison. So I really don't know why the fascination with him when there are so many other wonderful, albeit less well-known architects around like Tadao Ando and Zaha Hadid.

posted by siongchinchan on 2008-04-04 13:44:26
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So don't go to the lecture.

posted by Enrique on 2008-04-04 18:15:40
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Isn't this the building that had to be retrofitted due to the blinding sun reflecting off the building?

posted by anne on 2008-04-04 20:29:01
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