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• "a ship run aground,"
  ("The museum's architect ... described the bizarrely shaped building on the banks of the Nervion River," - nyt_97.10.19)

  -- cited here: "The Passion of an Architect" - The Charlie Rose Show #1902_97.05.19; "With a Gehry Design as Bait, Spaniards Go Fishing For Tourists," nyt_97.06.24; "The Deal of the Century," ArtinAm_Jul97; "Gehry's October Surprise," Vanity Fair_Aug97; "Spain's Basques Attack Separatist Violence With Arts, Investment" wp_97.08.25; "Getty vs Guggenheim," blp_Sep97; "A Masterpiece for Now," nyt_97.09.09; "Masterpiece of a Museum," abcn_97.10.09; "Bilbao outpost latest expansion for Guggenheim art empire," ap_97.10.14; "Embattled Spain city remakes image with Guggenheim," r_97.10.15; "ETA tried to bomb Spain Guggenheim opening," r_97.10.15; "New Guggenheim: Art and Architecture as One," wsj_97.10.16; "New Guggenheim Attracts Violence," ap_97.10.17; "Basque separatists want new museum blood red," ap/pi_97.10.18; "Spain's Guggenheim Museum, built to deflect attention from violence, attracts it," ap/dn97.10.18; "Spaced Out in Bilbao," ft_97.10.18; "Basques make a dangerous liason," ft_97.10.18; "Spain Opens Guggenheim Museum," r_97.10.18; "Bilbao's New Guggenheim Museum Opens," r_97.10.18; "Guggenheim Built in Spain Opens Under Militant Cloud," nyt_97.10.19; "Editorial: Art confronts terrorism," jp_97.10.19; "Basque City Welcomes New Guggenheim Museum," r_97.10.19; "Giant Guggenheim in Spain May Upstage Its Contents," nyt_97.10.20; "Monument to Art," The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer_97.10.21; "Another Tale of Two Cities," nwk_97.11.03; "Gehry's Provocative Architecture Proving Irresistable to the Media," wp_97.11.01; "It Doesn't Get Much Better Than This," lat_97.12.21; "Grand Gestures And High Profiles," nyt_97.12.28; "We have seen the future. It's in Bilbao," t_97.12.29 ... etc. etc.

  • maximum transition
    "I see Gehry as an example of an architect whose transition to bigger and more major briefs has turned him from a maximum authentic into, let's say, a maximum fake." (Rem Koolhaas, "The Critical Landscape," 1997 -- 010 Rotterdam)

     
    

  • lavished
    "Gehry's current prominence is based less on judgments made by the architectural profession than by the profession of journalism." (Lewis RK, "Gehry's Provocative Architecture Proving Irresistable to the Media," - wp_97.11.01)

    
    

• other current projects
  • The Schmidt Museum of Coca-Cola Memorabilia, Elizabethtown KY  
    
  • The Experience Music Project, Seattle WA
  • Pariser Platz 3, Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany
  • Der Neue Zollhof, Dusseldorf, Germany  
    
  • The Vontz Center for Molecular Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH
  • The Samsung Museum of Modern Art in Seoul, Korea
     
    
  • The Peter B. Lewis Campus of the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH
  • The Bard College Center for the Performing Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

• "America's costliest shrine to culture, the $1 billion Getty Center ..." (McGuigan C, nwk_97.10.13)

  -- cited here: "Getty vs Guggenheim," blp_Sep97; "More than a museum, the Getty is 'an insta-cultural center.'" (Lelyveld N, pi_97.12.18); "The Getty art sensation," (bbc_97.12.16); "From crass to class -- Can Getty Center change Tinseltown's image?" (Feldman C, cnn_97.12.16); "The New Getty, Dream and Symbol," (Kimmelman M, nyt_97.12.16); "Getty museum more than a home for masterpieces," (McDermott A, Hill J, cnn_97.12.15); "VIPs Cut Ribbon on $1 Billion Getty Center," (Whitcomb D, r_97.12.14); "Getty's Big Address," (Forgey B, wp_97.12.14); "Expensive New Getty Art Museum Opening in LA," (Spiegelman A, r_97.12.13); "Already, the Getty Is Facing A Long List of Expectations," (Sterngold J, nyt_97.12.13); "Getty center takes U.S. arts world by storm," (Spiegelman A, r_97.12.12); "L.A.'s New Getty: High Art," (Lee G, wp_97.12.07); "Faulty Towers -- Getty Center ... fails to coalesce into a great work of architecture. " (Betsky A, arch_Dec97); "What the Getty Can't Buy : Time." (Muchnic S, lat_97.10.22); "... too solid and permanent to be appreciated in a city that is only 'transitory' ..." (a local billionaire, in Vidler A, "L.A.'s Only Constant Is Change ...," lat_97.10.05); ... etc. etc.

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