Basic outline model of the Vitra Design Museum

Gehry's later buildings gained part of their ambiguity from their break with normal conventions, from their fractured geometry, from their acceptance of banal features in the surroundings, and from their resemblance to abstract sculptures. With most of Gehry’s work forced efforts were made at historical and civic references, but the real interest of the project still lay in its collision of disparate pieces and scales. The Vitra Design Museum had the mood of a psychic projection of disturbing dream fragments. Gehry’s work relied upon the dynamic interpretation of walls, floors, ceilings and skylights as well as the explosion of convex and concave planes. These floating facets, which were sometimes clad in stainless steel, were capable of evoking multiple associations, musical and nautical, but they also extended spatial researches. Gehry’s architecture was personal and inimitable, and was without a social or ideological program, yet it still caught the mood of a widespread uncertainty in which public frameworks and supports were falling away, leaving the individual in a state of suspension.

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William J. R. Curtis Modern Architecture Since 1900
Chapter 35, Technology, Abstraction and Ideas of Nature: page 663