re: #507 palomino

I don’t think it’s in Gehry’s DNA to do anything really traditional or classical, so this is the probably the best we’re gonna get from him. He tries to pay homage to the Greek classical white marble style with the use of several columns, but they are totally freestanding, no connection with larger structures. So it’s “playful” and self-conscious in that post-modern aesthetic you referenced.

I think Gehry’s biggest influence was a Spanish architect named Gaudi, whose stuff was very quirky, at least for his time (early 1900s)

Gaudi was always interesting. I like Green and Greene, Frank Lloyd Wright, Neutra. A lot of nameless designs as represented by craftsman-bungalow architecture. Gothic, the Woolworth Building.

Ugliest building I ever saw was the Marriot Hotel in San Francisco. OK, I admit there are plenty other examples of ugly.