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November 9, 2007
MIT Sues Gehry for "Design and Construction Failures"
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Starchitecht Frank Gehry blames the victim:
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology last week filed a lawsuit against Frank Gehry's architecture firm, citing design flaws in its Stata Center, completed in 2004.
"I think the issues are fairly minor," Gehry told the New York Times. "MIT is after our insurance."
The suit says that the school in Cambridge, Mass., paid $1.5 million to repair the cracked walls of the amphitheater earlier this year. Gehry told the Times, "The client chose not to put certain devices on the roofs, to save money."
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Gehry has been compared to Frank Lloyd Wright, who, when a client complained that his new house's ceiling leaked water onto the dining room table, replied, "Move your chair."
Posted by lumi at November 9, 2007 5:36 AM