Members Franklin Romero

Nov 8 2009: design process IS like a circle, you repeat things come back to ideas, re-do ideas in different modes etc. He know's what he's talking about, even if he adds other references to 'ground it'

Jun 14 2009: Well yes individualism, or at least the singular experience is what allows an artist to create something another might not think of, so his 'public form of art' is just that, art, even if it is an abstraction.
Your second argument deals with form following function.
We understand our world by creating basic concepts for everything. But who's to say that a chair can't have 3 legs instead of four? (apply that analogy to this) Who says that a library should look a certain way? As long as it's serving its function, to house books, it does not matter how closely the architecture follows that function, except in terms of expenses. Gehry's work breaks down architecture and challenges our understandings of what anything really is and shows us that it can readily be anything else we never thought of before.