Mr. Gehry is well-known for buildings whose forms suggest not the “frozen music” of Classicism, but frozen melt-down and explosion, paralyzed tremor and arrested collapse. Indeed the remnants of the World Trade Center were eerily reminiscent of Gehry’s style. ... The screening of banal buildings with a variety of metallic and synthetic “textiles” is currently a worldwide fashion. Mr. Gehry claims to be a contextualist, however he ignores and condemns the operative technology of traditional urban and architectural settings, his signature language is self-limited to an architectural “newspeak” hemmed-in between German Rationalism (Mies, Gropius) and German Expressionism (Finsterlin, Schwitters, Murnau). The Gehry style is a century old; it seems “innovative” only to the ignorant. Personally, I don't care much for it either. It feels a bit gimmicky, and I have real doubts that it will age well. It's bold, but not so much in a good way. I'd be interested to step inside it though. I wonder if it will work from within it.
