[HN Gopher] Frank Gehry has died
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Frank Gehry has died
Author : ksajadi
Score : 65 points
Date : 2025-12-05 21:31 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| NYT obit https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/arts/design/frank-
| gehry-d... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46166034)
| losvedir wrote:
| He designed the Stata center at MIT. I know it's had lots of
| problems (leaks and other issues) because of its wonky design.
| But I always liked walking by, and thought of it as a Dr Seuss
| building.
| BeetleB wrote:
| They sued him for it:
|
| https://thetech.com/2010/03/19/statasuit-v130-n14
| bombcar wrote:
| " neglige0nce"
|
| Weird article. Maybe OCR?
| ternus wrote:
| Anecdotally, the professors I talked to in the building hated
| it. Non-rectilinear walls and oddly-shaped offices made it
| difficult to put up bookcases and desks. The windows were all
| custom, meaning if one broke, it was difficult to replace. And,
| of course, the aforementioned leaks.
|
| I was in the Radio Society and had access to the Green Building
| (50) roof. The Stata Center actually looks coherent from that
| angle, and you can tell that was the angle the designers and
| approvers had been seeing it from (in model form) the whole
| time.
| forks wrote:
| RIP. 8 Spruce is a personal favorite.
| eclipticplane wrote:
| Agreed, such a great structure in NYC's skyline. Lived on 73
| for a few years. The contoured windows and benches inside were
| just as fun as the exterior.
|
| Still don't understand why they stuck a red brick school in the
| middle and didn't contour it with the stainless steel panels
| like the rest of the building.
| onionisafruit wrote:
| I first heard of him through The Simpsons and will forever think
| of "Hey Frank Gehry! like curvilinear forms, much?" when I hear
| his name.
| SteveGerencser wrote:
| I got to meet Frank in the mid 90s while studying architecture in
| New Mexico. He was incredibly generous with his time and ideas to
| us students that stayed extra late to catch him touring the
| studios with the dean around midnight. His midnight critique of
| my design that was due the next morning made me throw it out and
| start over to include some of his ideas.
| ssttoo wrote:
| He also designed a Facebook's office in Menlo Park. The roof was
| literally a park, seemingly blending with the bay and you could
| go for a nice nature stroll mid-day by just going up a flight of
| stairs. https://arquitecturaviva.com/works/facebook-campus-in-
| menlo-...
| ipsum2 wrote:
| I worked in this building. It was terrible. Low light,
| completely open office, people walking around you all the time,
| extremely noisy, pretty ugly (the roof-top garden was the
| exception). My team expensed noise cancelling headphones
| because it was so loud.
|
| MPK 22 was also designed by Gehry Partners, which was a massive
| improvement on the inside, but outside is still kinda terrible
| in my opinion: https://www.truebeck.com/project/facebook-
| mpk-22/
| quickthrowman wrote:
| Architects like Frank Gehry don't design the inside of a
| building, they make a nice artistic exterior and delegate the
| rest.
|
| Interior architecture is done by psychopaths who never have
| to suffer through their 'innovations'. I work in commercial
| construction and am not a fan of architects in general, I
| vastly prefer working on projects led by a mechanical or
| electrical engineer.
| pavlov wrote:
| I've spent some time there, and it did seem like a building
| that was primarily designed for satellite view -- never mind
| what goes on inside.
| npunt wrote:
| I grew up a few blocks from his funky Santa Monica house [1],
| passed by it all the time. When you're a kid you typically see
| wild new things like that as just normal because you have no
| context for how unusual they are. His house defied that
| perspective; even as a kid you understand that being wrapped in
| oddly angled chain link fences and corrugated metal is just...
| different. It's an unanswered question, a loose thread, a thing
| you can't unknow.
|
| I don't particularly like the house - it's meant to be
| challenging not beautiful - but with perspective I see now there
| aren't many creations out there that achieve existence in eternal
| confusion like it does for me. I see his other works like Bilbao
| [2] and Disney Hall as refinements on the concept with the added
| dimension of beauty. They're not quite as memorable, but I think
| do a great job exploring the frontier of beauty and befuddlement.
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehry_Residence
|
| [2] especially the aerial perspective
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guggenheim_Museum_Bilbao#/medi...
| detourdog wrote:
| I saw him speak about that house and at that time he was having
| a really hard time living in the suburban mindset. He wanted to
| offend.
|
| I'm jealous that you knew it so well and as just another house.
| brudgers wrote:
| It's the building that put Gehry on the map...it was published
| in the Record House issue of _Architectural Record_ when the
| magazine was officially associated with the AIA.
|
| For perspective Gehry was in his forties and had been
| practicing architecture for many years.
| brcmthrowaway wrote:
| Who else gets confused between Frank Gehry and Frank Lloyd
| Wright?
| tmp10423288442 wrote:
| Nope
| cowsandmilk wrote:
| Beyond sharing a first name, they don't share much in common.
| And Frank Lloyd Wright died about the time Frank Gehry started.
| themafia wrote:
| As an artist I appreciate Frank Gehry.
|
| As an engineer I detest Frank Gehry.
| christkv wrote:
| I think the only one I consider worse is Calatrava from an
| engineering perspective
| Fricken wrote:
| If you think of him as a sculptor more than an architect it's
| nothing to get upset about.
| Polizeiposaune wrote:
| From 2002: "Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches For
| Grandkids":
|
| https://theonion.com/frank-gehry-no-longer-allowed-to-make-s...
|
| (just a picture, no story).
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