“There’s no there”

Frank Gehry Pavilion at VitraModel of the Gehry design AGO renovationGehry Model: glowing rectangles, stacked. Interior staircase of the Gehry pavilionDetail from wall quote at the Gehry pavilion at the Vitra HQ

When you’re a younger architect, starting out, you’re seeking some kind of impossible perfection. You can spend your life thinking about this ephermal building that would be great to do, it would be the capstone of my career. And you realize as you mature that there’s no there. You aren’t gonna get there  

Words of the late Frank Gehry, from an interview with Sydney Pollack, in his film Sketches of Frank Gehry.

(Photos from a visit to the Gehry pavilion at Vitra in 2015.)

Peter Rukavina

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