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To: UriÂ’el-2012

Nah, Gaudi’s stuff (his ghastly cathedral excepted) is mostly whimsical and fun (like the building whose roof looks like a dragon is curled up on it taking a nap). And his cathedral has the virtue of being a tour de force of engineering: the spires and arches were optimally designed for height using analog computation.

Gehry’s buildings (with perhaps the sole exception of an art gallery in Toronto) are all just ugly as sin. The one is this article is actually one of his less ugly efforts — the Dancing House in Prague, the MIT Philosophy Building, the Guggenheim Bilbao,... each one uglier than the one before so there is no end to their ugliness.


33 posted on 12/04/2012 7:36:17 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: The_Reader_David
Nah, Gaudi’s stuff (his ghastly cathedral excepted) is mostly whimsical and fun

I threw it out to see if anyone
was aware of architecture.

Yes Gaudi was whimsical.

Frank Gehry seems heavy-handed.


38 posted on 12/04/2012 8:40:30 PM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your teaching is my delight.)
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