WTC: Eisenman Rebukes Gehry

Architect Peter Eisenman responded to Frank Gehry's remark about the 'demeaning' pay given to design teams to develop proposals for Ground Zero.

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January 15, 2003, 12:00 PM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"The second outburst came when Peter Eisenman, a member of one of the New York teams that submitted a design, said, 'It doesn't matter a damn, Frank Gehry, that we were paid only $40,000.'Mr. Eisenman was referring to the amount paid to each competing team by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to cover costs, which Mr. Gehry...had characterized in an interview in The New York Times Magazine this month as demeaning to serious architects. Mr. Gehry was not at the event."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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Thursday, January 9, 2003 in The New York Times

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