ern efncreo Romar ul era Frank Gehry: The City and MusicContents ix xi x¥ 31 65 101 129 Foreword List of [ustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter Improbable Logic Chapter 2 Berlin: The Preservation of Insulation Chapter 5 Los Angeles: Music and the idea of the Centre Chapter 4 Conclusion: The Practicality of Planes Taking Flight in Mass, Towards Colour IndexrE CHAPTER 1 Improbable Logic Peter Arnell: But you are an artist, rightp Prank Gehry: Pm an architec I it tha Toe ape eee With @ lot of artists and Pm ven Peseta aerate De re) tn their work: 1 thir * ae 5 a ” , id that there’s been some give and take, $0 somey® SOUR OUt of it, an Somebody'tl say, + times I get called an artist. ‘Oh, well, Frank's an aryy, : isis : tise’ that’s used like a dismissal, want to say Pm an are ae T feel in a way th architecture.t te ct. My intention is to make We were in Gehry’s studio and he was talkin, 5 i 7 & about how successfully completing a project requires the architect 1, ae ne to all the things that go wrong, or become unexpectedly Giffieuy, regardless of what they are. Gehry stopped in the middle of an anecdote st illustrated this point and smiled: ‘But when itis built, ang YOU see it i i y tS) verything improbable event happens’, ” the first time with ev y I think it important that he uses perfect because, ‘eneral Present tense rather than the past generally Speaking, what 18 i dislike about Gel % ne ue ple seem either to like or hry’s buildings iS that they active and imaginative—an vent not a record, 4 Gehry building js the of a playful logic, found j Tactical result and embodiment pares hes ington Gehry finds in fF Hes eae omawhiae # wae eit ak ecome & 4 implicit in the steel ot aimee ee a ae he es 8 discussed here are implicit in the Materials ou es Tlnney eee a They begin as Paper models, ‘Paper’ says of wi y build i ehry, ‘is structure. If I can uild it an aa ¥ f what to build it Might do jp A° Gestion of wha at logi it were made to play a game for UE ne touniae once its truth rohitectant FOrsteR One of © first to explicate the body’s rchitecture, has Said; Materials is also improbable: it does be used for, o frame, it is n role in Gehry’s al I find it such an illustrative 8esture, s; mel ing indication, that when he was given [some| Formicaltik ha telling indication, € ing he did Was to break it. To break Something, ty pWaterial, the first thing i a1, reak away from its standard use, has an archaic, an almost childlike intensity about it—you break into it, you taste it, you sniff it, you take it me belie waeas something new to i? apart, y