Frank Gehry: From 1990, defending a vision for architecture

Speaking at TED in 1990, the notyetlegendary architect Frank Gehry takes a whistlestop tour of his work to date, from his own Venice Beach house to the underconstruction American Center in Paris. In this 50minute slideshow (before TED s 18minute limit), Gehry explains the sitespecific nature of his buildings context he felt was lost in the discussions of his thencontroversial work. In this candid and funny talk, he exposes his own messy creative process ( I take pieces and bits, and look at it, and struggle with it, and cut it and the way he struggles with problems ( This model on the left is pretty awful. I was ready to commit suicide when this was built. .. If any of you have ideas on it, please contact me. I don t know what to do ).