I remember Frank Gehry giving a speech in the Banqueting Hall – I thought in connection with the Pritzker Prize, but he won it too long ago (it was when he won the RIBA gold medal in 2000) – in which he demonstrated the extraordinary fluency and fertility of his invention, the range of the projects he was undertaking, and the ways in which computer-aided design had unleashed his creative juices. But seeing his designs on a screen is as nothing to seeing the Walt Disney Hall fresh in the early morning sun after two days of rain, a curious but effective combination of populism (bugger the modernists), swagger and a Richard Serra-like interest in pure form:-
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Beautifully photographed, Charles. You capture his wondrous curve and line, the way that his surfaces wind round their form. You do him hustice.
It’s regrettable that we have relatively few of his buildings in the UK. Apart from a Maggie Centre or two.
Please forgive the typo : it is, of course, Justice that we fail to give him.
Your detailed pictures are even more impressive than views of the whole building. Did you see inside? It wasn’t open when I was there some years ago, 2004 I think.
Not sure how you managed to get such fantastic views – from different angles and perspective – or what camera you used. Though all your photographs of LA have been good.
All done on my Samsung Galaxy 7. Not the one which blows up ! Charles
I thought you would be an iphone man – I now have to wear hearing aids and I have ones made for iphones – by a Danish company Resound – they are great. The camera is pretty good too.
Yes, I maybe should be, but have got used to the Samsung and like it, apart from occasional typos (my fault). Charles