MIT sues Frank Gehry, citing leaks in $300m complex

Blames famed architect for flaws at Stata CenterThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology has filed a negligence suit against world-renowned architect Frank Gehry, charging that flaws in his design of the $300 million Stata Center in Cambridge, one of the most celebrated...

Frank Gehry’s buildings seem to be from another planet

What’s the most difficult and stressful task that a human being can perform? Brain surgery on the President of the United States maybe, or reentering the Earth’s atmosphere in a malfunctioning Space Shuttle? Or perhaps it would it be the task of designing a...

The Architect: A relatively dark conversation with Frank Gehry

LOS ANGELES--Frank Gehry is 77, white haired, paunchy, and when we talked one afternoon in late autumn the topics of age and death never seemed far off. Mr. Gehry is, of course, one of the world's great architects, creator of the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao and enough of an...

Design exhibit loses its thread

In trying to show the link between fashion and architecture, MOCA's 'Skin + Bones' ends up feeling thin.On the evening of Sept. 10, 2001, Frank Gehry had dinner at a restaurant in Lower Manhattan with the Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake, for whom he'd just finished a...