Sketches of Frank Gehry | movie | 2006 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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Transcript

00:00If you're a complete layman and not an architectural specialist, what's so hot about Frank Gehry?

00:14What's all the fuss about?

00:17Some of my colleagues, they think of architecture in a hermetic way.

00:21If you do this with it, it ain't architecture anymore.

00:25They asked me to make a documentary about him.

00:27It's not just that I didn't know anything about making documentaries.

00:30I didn't even know anything about architecture.

00:33See how this unfolds and is welcoming?

00:35And that curve leads right into it.

00:37All right, now let me just shoot that curve.

00:40I think Frank really does creatively live in the moment.

00:45Frank did his little swiggles, and it's essentially that.

00:50The night Santa Monica Place opened, the president of the Rouse Company says to me, why'd you

00:55do that?

00:56Because I had to make a living, and he says, stop it.

00:59It was like jumping off a cliff.

01:01Frank still doesn't know how to use a computer, I mean, except to throw it at somebody.

01:05I tried to draw it with descriptive geometry, but when the guy built it, there's a kink

01:10in it.

01:11That's what led us to the computer.

01:13Frank believes in accidents, but some of his accidents are failures.

01:16I feel very comfortable in his spaces, and if it does compete with the art, maybe that

01:20art isn't good enough.

01:22You need one less corrugation.

01:24See how it works?

01:26That is so stupid looking, it's great.

01:28We work back and forth between the planning and the model.

01:33If this doesn't work, that doesn't work.

01:36You give Frank the functionality, and then he delivers the picture.

01:40There is a certain threatening to taking the leap, but once you try that, you can't stop.