A Machine for the Ego

Le Corbusier called the house a machine for living. Apparently Frank Gehry believes a building to be a machine for proclaiming his self-indulgent ego and stylistic histrionics. Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one with a deep bowel-felt revulsion for nearly every pointlessly melodramatic curved surface Gehry starchetects? Gah!

Just follow these simple steps and you too can become a solipsistic starchitect in no time flat. You might even attract a few groupies. Of course you won’t actually need them due to your masterfully cultivated intellectual onanism. But thier bottomless adulation adds a little juice to your only real product: ego.

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6 thoughts on “A Machine for the Ego

  1. funny should you write this today. I’ve been thinking along the same lines too, the topic of rockstar egos in the creative field and lack thereof.

    btw, I heard once that frank gehry designed shells by crumpling up a sheet of paper and throwing it on the floor and then telling his minions to figure out the structural engineering component required to make it a roof.

  2. I see I’ve offended a Gehry fan. Oh well. Yes one could say the same about my blog, or any blog.

    That said let me point out a few differences betwen this blog and Gehry (I’ll type slowly so you can keep up).

    1. I’m kind of anonymous here. Which means my ego gets nothing out of this
    2. I don’t get paid for this; my paycheck isn’t tied to name recognition (of which i have none) or ego
    3. Because I’m not getting paid expect a little self-indulgence–its my blog and I’ll write what I want to
    4. I don’t have piles of delusional fawning articles written about my brilliance
    5. This blog does not imposes itself on others
    6. This blog is a conversation, not a loud obnoxious lecture
    7. This blog is not an excersize in extreme self-conscious, dogmatic, and restrictive stylistics to the exclusion of all else
    8. This blog does not stand in obstinate decorative hostility to everything in its surroundings
    9. Ok, I’m bored now

    Thanks for reading, and come again.

  3. OK.

    — Not a Gehry fan, per se, just making the observation that there’s a shortage of love in the world and we’re all seeking it desperately these days, Frank included.

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