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June 28, 2006
Gehry's Death Wish for Brooklyn.
HereinVanNuys.com considers novelist Jonathan Lethem's open letter to architecht Frank Gehry and agrees that Gehry's legacy stands in the balance.
Lethem predicts that if Gehry stays connected with this ill-conceived project, that his legacy in New York will be judged badly.
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Lethem’s political analogy is correct. Back room builders and politicians, to promote an agenda of regressive and exploitative development, now own the name “Frank Gehry” in a PR mission to sell the public junk architecture. Like the flags waving in the background of Fox News, Gehry’s name on a project is a way to make palatable the civic destruction, governmental bribery and tax loophole mendaciousness of our new robber barons.
Posted by lumi at June 28, 2006 7:07 AM