{"id":1897,"date":"2008-04-04T09:20:48","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T09:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/04\/04\/frank-gehry-from-1990-defendin\/"},"modified":"2008-04-04T09:20:48","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T09:20:48","slug":"frank-gehry-from-1990-defendin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/04\/frank-gehry-from-1990-defendin\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Gehry: From 1990, defending a vision for architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Speaking at TED in 1990, the not-yet-legendary architect Frank Gehry takes a whistlestop tour of his work to date, from his own Venice Beach house to the under-construction American Center in Paris. In this 50-minute slideshow (before TED&#8217;s 18-minute limit), Gehry explains the site-specific nature of his buildings &#8212; context he felt was lost in the discussions of his then-controversial work. In this candid and funny talk, he exposes his own messy creative process (&#8220;I take pieces and bits, and look at it, and struggle with it, and cut it away&#8230;&#8221;) and the way he struggles with problems (&#8220;This model on the left is pretty awful. I was ready to commit suicide when this was built &#8230; If any of you have ideas on it, please contact me. I don&#8217;t know what to do&#8221;).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><!--cut and paste--><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0\" width=\"320\" height=\"285\" id=\"VE_Player\" align=\"middle\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted2\/flash\/loader.swf\"><PARAM NAME=\"FlashVars\" VALUE=\"bgColor=FFFFFF&#038;file=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/movies\/FRANKGEHRY-1990_high.flv&#038;autoPlay=false&#038;fullscreenURL=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/fullscreen.html&#038;forcePlay=false&#038;logo=&#038;allowFullscreen=true\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\"><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\"><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking at TED in 1990, the not-yet-legendary architect Frank Gehry takes a whistlestop tour of his work to date, from his own Venice Beach house to the under-construction American Center in Paris. In this 50-minute slideshow (before TED&#8217;s 18-minute limit), Gehry explains the site-specific nature of his buildings &#8212; context he felt was lost in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/04\/frank-gehry-from-1990-defendin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Frank Gehry: From 1990, defending a vision for architecture<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[147],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-uB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}