09 junho 2003

CULTURAS IN VITRO
[ou a verdadeira dimensão dos interesses:]
Frank Gehry apresenta novo Parque Mayer: Pedro Santana Lopes, Presidente da Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, não escondeu o entusiasmo e a grande afinidade estética com Frank Gehry: «Fico quase esmagado pela capacidade que ele tem de apreender Lisboa. Tenho a certeza, já neste momento, que (este projecto) será algo que marcará a vida de Lisboa por muito tempo».
Magical world of Gehry: At any given moment, there are perhaps 30 projects at various stages of development being worked on by the 103 people in the Gehry office.
Two major events dominate the life of the white-haired genius who started life as Frank Goldberg in Toronto in 1929 and moved to Los Angeles 18 years later.
One is the completion and opening in the next few months of Walt Disney Concert Hall — one of his most daunting projects ever — in downtown Los Angeles, 15 years after he began working on it.
The other is Gehry's re-connection with the country where he was born [Canada]