"Is starting hard? You know it is."-Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry is an architect and an artist who fabricates impossibly organic buildings out of stereotypically industrial materials. He has designed many buildings as well as houses for buyers of all sorts, including museums, private buyers, businesses, and companies. He designed the Vitra Furniture Museum as well as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. Frank goes through a very particular design process, and he works in glass and metals. He is part of the process 100%, and usually his designs require thinking around the parameters of the materials.
Frsnk Gehry seems to be such a character. He said something along the lines of his building design looking so stupid it worked. When asked about it, he replied something like 'yeah, stupid', but in a more positive tone than the word usually commands. His approach to buildings is so out of the box, I can hardly follow it, but his question, "So how do you make a building human?" is a great question to apply to anything you're designing. If a product becomes humanistic, it becomes relatable, and thus the people who are using it understand and appreciate it more.
-RM
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