The Future Of Los Angeles: Hopeless

At a forum in Los Angeles, architect Frank Gehry says he has given up on Los Angeles.

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April 9, 2002, 6:00 AM PDT

By Chris Steins @planetizen


"The question that provoked the designer of Disney Hall: 'What is the future of Los Angeles?' "Hopeless," [Gehry replied.] "It may be just my experience, but a lot of stuff holds back doing things in L.A. I was involved in the street repair between Disney Hall and Moneo's Cathedral. We wanted to link MOCA, Disney Hall, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the new cathedral. We brought in Isozaki, who did MOCA. We brought in Laurie Olin, the landscape architect. We brought in Stuart Ketchum, who is well-known around downtown. We listened to everybody. We worked diligently. That was over a year ago, and we never heard from anybody. We did hear they [the county] hired another landscape architect. I thought it was just provincial L.A."

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Tuesday, April 9, 2002 in LA Weekly

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