Sketches of Frank Gehry

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Has anyone else seen Sketches of Frank Gehry?

I seen this the other night and found it pretty interesting. Its very celebrity-centric but considering the subject matter this is appropriate IMO.

The film sheds light on Gehry's method, which turns out is as intuitive and arbitrary as I suspected.

After the movie I walked over to Stata to give it yet another looking over. The novelty has pretty much already worn off, and its feeling more and more like all flash and no substance. Thats not to say I dislike the building, because I dont.

Interestingly, Charles Correa/Goody+Clancy's newish Brain and Cognitive Center directly across the street is the perfect foil to Stata. I call it the anti-Stata. Each contrasts with the other very nicely and both buildings are made better for it. The BCC gets the better of it though.

Incidentally, the Brain and Cognitive Center is my favorite of MITs new buildings.
 
i just saw the trailer for this yesterday, i'll be seeing it sometime soon. i saw a story on gehry on cbs sunday morning last week about how he is designing jewelry for tiffany's. it was pretty interesting. he just sort of comes up with rough ideas and relies on others to refine them.
 
briv said:
After the movie I walked over to Stata to give it yet another looking over. The novelty has pretty much already worn off, and its feeling more and more like all flash and no substance. Thats not to say I dislike the building, because I dont.

Interestingly, Charles Correa/Goody+Clancy's newish Brain and Cognitive Center directly across the street is the perfect foil to Stata. I call it the anti-Stata. Each contrasts with the other very nicely and both buildings are made better for it. The BCC gets the better of it though.

Incidentally, the Brain and Cognitive Center is my favorite of MITs new buildings.
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I agree. I really like the BCC, and it probably is my favorite MIT building. Back in December or so I spent an hour or two wandering around its insides photographing it (which were lost with a harddrive crash a couple months ago), and it's quite interesting. There's minimal security there, so it was easy to wander all over (except for the lab wings, which are card access only, but this still leaves plenty of places to explore). If you go, go on a non-school day so there's less people around.

That day was my first up-close experience with the Stata also. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't in awe over the building at first, but I knew it was just a flash-in-the-pan gimmick all the while. Still, I liked the chrome covered parts on the second floor terrace. I did find the interior quite, umm, fun to explore, since there's so many colors and weird angles exploding at you in all directions. It really keeps you moving on to explore each new area. However, trying to keep one's bearings in there is IMPOSSIBLE. I don't see how all the little tykes using the place can find anything in there without having a map right in front of them at all times.

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I haven't seen Sketches yet. Anyone feel like meeting up and heading over to Kendall Square to see it? The times are:

12:00, 2:35, 5:00, 7:40, 10:00.

Summer classes start tomorrow (ugh), but I'm free most any evening. It'd be nice to not go to a movie by myself :)
 
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