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At 79, miracle-worker Gehry still going strong

Staff Reporter
Published Monday, April 14, 2008

Philip Johnson once said that a great architect might see one in 10 of his designs built. At a lecture on Thursday, two years to the day after his last speech at Yale, Frank Gehry chose to focus on the unbuilt nine.

“Last time I was here, I showed everything I’d done since my bar mitzvah,” Gehry quipped to a standing-room-only crowd at the Yale University Art Gallery on Thursday. “But what never got built is interesting, too.”

Interesting not least because there is so much. In a Friday interview with the News, Gehry, considered by many to be one of the world’s foremost...

#1 By Architect '08 4:19p.m. on April 14, 2008

This was just about the best lecture I've seen at this school.

#2 By (Anonymous) 4:26p.m. on April 14, 2008

Miracle-worker? Unless he walks on water, you people really need to rein it in sometimes...

#3 By Ham 3:59p.m. on April 15, 2008

Hasn't had another museum since Bilbao? What does he call the Experience Music Project in Seattle?

#4 By anon 9:35p.m. on April 15, 2008

dear #3 the EMI is pleasantly referred to as an abortion, not a museum.

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