WA/SA
Working 9-5, at...
[waldrip architects/ s.a.] [architecture- los angeles]
Alberti, Sandro 3rd Base; 1 November, 2002 [text26]
‘WA/SA’, ‘Aloha8’, and ‘Working 9 to 5, at...’
are fictions of fen-om: [www.fen-om.com]
From a recent LA Times article on Frank Gehry: “In a celebrity-obsessed age, Frank Gehry has attained a stature that would make Andy Warhol quiver with jealousy.” “There is increasing evidence that, at 73, Gehry has not yet reached the point of creative exhaustion.” Gehry.
“[In the near future, he will abandon] the Santa Monica house that has stood at the center of his architectural identity for decades… A move to Venice can be read as an effort to reconnect to earlier ideals… At the same time, many of his recent projects suggest a desire to stretch the boundaries of his aesthetic vision.”
Gehry.
“Such changes… point toward a new chapter in Gehry’s life, the third and final act in a long and prolific career.” “Gehry can claim two major breakthroughs in his career.” “Beneath his sometimes gruff manor and rumpled appearance, he is mellowing. And increasingly, he seems to be driven by a renewed sense of introspection. He is more apt to reflect on his early experiences as an architect. To some degree, this is taking him back to an earlier language.”
Gehry.
“The project that most suggests a shift in Gehry’s creative sensibility is the Museum of Biodiversity in Panama. In the design, still in its early stages, galleries are sheltered beneath a dense network of overlapping roof canopies, their colorful, folded planes evoking a cloud of butterflies that have come to rest on a tree branch. Underneath, bridges crisscross the space to connect the various galleries.” ----A 3rd stage, leading to mellowed, introspective, and shifting creativity. Third and last, as opposed to 5th and continuing, for example (a course at the ‘La Sapienza’ architecture department in Rome recently described Gehry’s work as consisting of 5 stages: Assembly, Spatiality, Separation, Fusion, and Liquefaction). So, wherein lies the focus, here? How is Gehry being ‘branded’ now, in his hometown? Is it about a
Gehry.
