A few insights that struck a cord with me:
- Artists take risks
- Make the decision to say "no" to doing things like everyone else.
- Director, Sydney Pollack: Need to get to a point where you stop pretending to be, i.e. architect, director, designer--and just be.
- Process of design:
work on 2 or 3 scales of the same model
- Vitra CEO on Gehry building: "Forces unleased found a new order"
- Bankruptcy in finances & relationships < low confidence
- Teach clients instead of trying to seduce them into believing & understanding your work
- Director, Sydney Pollack: "Talent is liquified trouble"
- Find a small % of space in the commercial world where you can make a difference
- Art as achitecture: composition in art < composition in architecture
- Guggenhiem Museum in Bilboa, Spain: way to express feelings in 3D
- Important elements & principles: light & scale
- Perception of process -- 2nd opportunity to do again
- Free association into practical reality
- How do you humanize a space especially modern spaces? It's all in the materials
- Surround yourself with good people
- Accepts projects based on whether or not he likes the people
- Most important influence on project: THE CLIENT
- Criticisms: try on, look at, but don't take in
- Form (Exterior) + Space (Interior) = Interrelated
Interesting post on Frank Gehry - I enjoyed hearing your take aways. Taking risks is so difficult for me to do, but an absolutely necessary part of the design process. I look forward to learning how to take more risks!
ReplyDeleteYou took away a lot of great Gehry insights! So much of this should be kept in mind in our own careers and lives. Thanks for posting!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome Victoria. I definitely plan on expounding on each of these points in the future.
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