Our initial response to Gehry’s style was a guffaw of disbelief. We "People actually feel the need to touch the building," said An average of 1,000 people a day toured Disney Hall, the Music Center’s article from the Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As a strictly amateur aficianado of the architectural arts, we have been following the career of one Frank Gehry, one of the giants of our times, and like all true giants, a controversial figure as well. Among his acclaimed designs … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/Gehrymit.jpg\")
As a strictly amateur aficianado of the architectural
\n arts, we have been following the career of one Frank
\n Gehry<\/a>, one of the
\n giants of our times, and like all true giants, a controversial figure
\n as well. Among his acclaimed designs are a series of fantastic beach
\n houses in California, the Guggenheim
\n Museum in Spain<\/a>, and the Walt Disney
\n Concert Hall in LA .<\/p>\n
\n were sure the photo we were looking at was a Photoshop hoax. What absurd,
\n impractical, bizarre spaces! Now an article in the Los
\n Angeles Times<\/a> showers accolades on the Disney design for the way it has revitalized
\n the entire area in which it was constructed! The article says the zone
\n has become, as the architect intended, a sort of open-air "living room"
\n for the city.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/stata.jpg\")
This is of more than passing interest to Boston area residents as Gehry’s
\n latest project, the billion-dollar Stata
\n Center<\/a>, is swiftly taking form
\n at MIT. It is already a controversial
\n project;<\/a> aside from the design
\n (again, we hated it at first sight but are starting to come around) it
\n is seriously over budget and behind schedule (seemingly a trademark of
\n Beantown projects). Actually, we are looking forward to the opportunity
\n to see the space without all the cranes and scaffolding, and get a chance
\n to move around it.<\/p>\n\n
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Proof of the public’s fascination with architect Frank Gehry’s steel-and-glass
\n extravaganza can be seen in the hundreds of fingerprint smudges visitors
\n have left on Disney Hall’s otherwise sleek exterior.<\/p>\n
\n Mark Slavkin, the Music Center’s vice president for education. "It’s
\n a nice problem."<\/p>\n
\n fourth venue, for free when it opened to the public in November. About
\n 7,000 people stopped by in December even after fees were instituted for
\n guided and self-guided tours.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n