Frank Gehry's creative process revealed in interview
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4. “In the first sketch I put a bunch of principles down. Then I become self-critical
of those images and those principles, and they evoke the next set of
responses. And as each piece unfolds, I make the models bigger, and bigger,
bringing into focus more elements and more pieces of the puzzle. And once I
have the beginning, a toehold into where I’m going, then I want to examine
the parts in more detail. And those evolve, and at some point I stop, because
that’s it. I don’t come to a conclusion, but I think there is a certain reality of
pressures to get the thing done that I accept. It’s maturity, or whatever you
want to call it, to say stop, go, finish. I’ve got other ideas now, and the door is
open for the next move, but its not going to happen on this building, it’s going
to happen on the next one”.
5. Frank O. Gehry found
inspiration in an Arizona
canyon for the interior
spaces of the offices and
classroom tower of the
Peter B. Lewis Building,
nearing completion on the
campus of Case Western
Reserve University.
