Musings

It is perhaps fitting that in 2012, starchitect Frank O. Gehry designed the abstract white stage set for Christopher Alden’s abstract and sublime production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. I certainly would not be surprised by the many clients, builders and even fellow architects who wouldn’t wish to see Gehry consigned to flames of hell, dragged into its depths for his unapologetic architecture and obsession with moving fish. Indeed even I at times, even when looking at his latest ‘crumpled paper bag’ (as it is ‘affectionately’ known) creation in my home of Sydney must look up and quizzically enquire, “Mr. Gehry, what do you think you are doing?”