Jay Merrick reviews the life and work of the "world's greatest living architect."
"...does [Frank] Gehry merit the praise that has been heaped upon him? If the titanium tsunami in Bilbao were his only great building, then obviously not. There has to be an "X" factor that separates him from such brilliant practitioners as Renzo Piano, the complex Libeskind, the extraordinarily creative Frenchman Jean Nouvel and the increasingly corporate Foster. Gehry's edge is that he is, unmistakably, rawly artistic in a profession dominated by "signature building" artistes. He is a sculptor who happens to do buildings...
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
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