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From: "Architexturez." <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:21:57 +0530
POLLACK CONSTRUCTS NON-LINEAR DOC ABOUT ARCHITECT GEHRY
BRIAN GIBSON / brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Architecture should be about building a city’s character. From the
sinuous steel of Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum to the swirling Walt Disney
Concert Hall in Los Angeles, few living architects are making more
quirky, spectacular civic structures than Toronto-born Frank Gehry.
Sketches of Frank Gehry is, as its title suggests, an allusive and
elusive tracing of the man and his work that also offers a rueful
rumination on the artistic process.
If you’re not moved by Gehry’s creations, then Sydney Pollack’s film
will be of little interest, and if you’re a devotee of the man’s messily
mesmerizing work, then the images of them here will be a poor substitute
for seeing them in person. As Pollack notes to architect Philip Johnson,
“The challenge is to get [the buildings] in two dimensions on film.”
Johnson replies, “Hopeless! You might as well give it up and become an
architect.”
cont'd....
http://www.vueweekly.com/articles/default.aspx?i=4493