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Motion
and emotion
“Cars are cultural expressions
of movement,” declares
star architect and Audi A8 driver
Frank O. Gehry.
Apart from his villa,
the Walt Disney
Concert Hall is “the
only building that I
use regularly myself,”
admits Frank O. Gehry.
In conversation with
Jan van Rossem,
Frank O. Gehry is con-
stantly in motion.
DESIGN: ARCHITECTURE AND ART
106 AUDI 2006 ANNUAL REPORT
“Simplicity of thinking” – simple, functional
and clear: that is how star architect Frank O.
Gehry likes things in his private life. For in-
stance when it comes to the thoroughly con-
venient operating principle of his 12-cylinder
Audi A8*: “Because everything is quick and
logical to pick up.” Many of his spectacular
edifices of aluminium, glass or humble engi-
neering brick do not do the onlooker this
favour. Like the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los
Angeles, one of his most recent masterpieces,
they embody the exact opposite of simplicity,
and are veritable marvels: confusing collages
of intertwining forms and subversive struc-
tures that dance and reel, daringly playing
with gravity in front of the onlooker’s eyes,
seemingly on the verge of toppling over or veer-
ing away. There is – seemingly – no semblance
of order. “I try to express my feelings and
emotions in my buildings,” states the award-
winning master of Deconstructivism. Scarcely
anyone who contemplates his works will doubt
that claim. Gehry continues: “For me, there is a
close connection between motion and emo-
tion,” drawing an analogy with the car.
There is another overlap between these two
spheres: the Canadian genius, a native of
Toronto, uses a design program that was actu-
ally created for the car industry. “Many of my
designs would not have been possible without
that software. See how closely dovetailed the
two disciplines are,” he declares with a wry
smile, as if to emphasise the apparent contra-
diction that such an iconoclast of established
architectural clichés should want to abide by
rigid design principles. As in the Walt Disney
Concert Hall in Los Angeles, structures pull in
different directions in order to allow spaces to
flow into one another.