As I have always said...

Frank Gehry is a hack architect. The man is an artist, there's no doubt about that, but you know who else was an artist? Hitler.

Gehry's buildings suck and they're out of place in their surroundings; they're falling apart; they're frequently stupid looking. The Walt Disney Concert Hall in L.A. actually uses Ronco technology to cook passersby as they walk down the street. Now, it seems that the Stata Center at M.I.T. is falling apart. And the piece of shit Gehry inflicted on Chicago, The Pritzker Pavilion, just needs to be torn down. It's ugly. Really very ugly. Ugly.

Also, I understand the concept of having a style, but there is a distinct problem with your style if all of your buildings seem to be knock-offs of other buildings. I can't tell most of Gehry's buildings apart in principle. Lots of metal at weird angles. Ugly. The Guggenheim looks like the Disney Concert Hall looks like the Pritzker Pavillion. Lots of metal, variations in shape and function, but all ugly. I kind of like Dancing House, but then Gehry went and ripped it off—in aluminum foil—when he made the Stata Center. At least, in part.

And, as Isaac Asimov noted, "We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects." Physical beauty, which in the cases of most of Gehry's buildings is highly questionable, is not a reason for a building. It is a reason for art, maybe, but not a building. Architecture and design should be left to architects and designers, people who are concerned with function and with simplicity. Gehry's perversions—and Frank Lloyd Wright's and Gaudi's—may look neat and, at least in the case of FLW, may fit their environments, but they're awfully stupid nonetheless. These famous architects are victimizing us, and more importantly, me, with their hideous erections. Gaudi's fantasy church will never be finished, (That's a promise.) and Falling Water is falling right the fuck over.

Maybe you have a different opinion. Maybe, unlike me, you don't think that everything should be made out of bricks. I think bricks are A-OK. Bricks and wood are just fine by me. I don't need these million dollar sheets of Reynolds wrap. I just want some bricks and some wood. Maybe some tiles. Maybe some nails and rivets and cement and the like. Generally though, what's wrong with buildings made out of bricks and wood?

Nothing, that's what.

And I don't think we've done all we can with reinforced concrete.
Or paint. I think Gehry's buildings need a few coats of black paint.