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December 29, 2005
"Unfamiliar territory": Times critic Ouroussoff on Gehry, Ratner, and the challenge in Brooklyn
TimesRatnerReport tuned in last night for The NY Times architecture critic Nicolai Ourousoff's appearance on The Charlie Rose Show.
Talk turned to Frank Gehry and the fourth-largest city in the US, Brooklyn, to reveal the question that seems to be on everyone's mind:
OUROUSOFF: The question is, for me, is he going to be able to deal with the things that traditionally developers might not let him play with. For example, the social organizations of the apartments inside. The relationship of the project to the context around it, in terms of the ground plan. I think Frank comes out of a tradition, in terms of urban planning, that in a lot of ways is very conservative. He's never built on this scale before. And I think he's now getting into a kind of unfamiliar territory, in terms of the scale he's working with.
TimesRatnerReporter ponders the question by examining other sources, including a Gehry interview at Columbia University.
Posted by lumi at December 29, 2005 7:57 AM