Frank Gehry
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Podcast Appearances
Well, I started doing that.
But I had played with it because chain link is the most despised material ever.
And yet they use it so prevalently all over the world.
And I was trying to figure out how it could be so despised and yet so used and so much denial about it that people use it.
And then they say, well, no, no, that's a tennis court.
But it's a damn chain-link fence.
I liked that idea of things that people deny exist and tried to see if I could figure out a way to make it better or usable.
Since they were going to use it anyway, maybe I could help them make it look prettier.
And I started to explore the qualities of it that I thought were, as a material, it works like a scrim.
If you look at it straight on, you look through it.
If you look at it on the angle, it closes up like a scrim does.
And there are different weights of it and different coatings on it.
And so I did a whole lot of research on it.
By the time I got to the house...
I had the beginning of a language with it.