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April 8, 2007
Gehry Uncertain About Future Allston Involvement
The Crimson
By Laura A. Moore
The dynamic duo design team for Atlantic Yards, artchitect Frank Gehry and landscape designer Laurie Olin, have been brought in to pinch-hit on the master plan for the Harvard University expansion.
Cue up the laugh track, the following article is milk-coming-out-of-your-nose funny:
Cooper, Robertson Managing Director David McGregor said that his firm added Gehry and Olin to the team because of their attention to city planning issues and not a desire for fame.
“There are architects who think first and foremost, ‘how can I make my building and my site the most prominent site there so that I can get noticed,’” he said. “That is not the way that any of us in the collaboration feel.”
Gehry also emphasized the importance of teamwork in the project.
“It was all communal and we all participated,” he said. “They wanted somebody like me to help them create a DNA for future buildings in the planning study, so that was my main role.”
NoLandGrab: "DNA for future buildings?" You can't make this stuff up. No one speaks new-paradigm English like Gehry who explained last May that his Atlantic Yards design is striving to "emulate" the "body language of Brooklyn." [Does that, like, make Miss Brooklyn the middle finger of Atlantic Yards?]
Posted by lumi at April 8, 2007 7:47 PM