Frank Gehry’s ever-changing light

A superb piece on architecture and project management by Christopher Reynolds of the Los Angeles Times describes the work of Terry Bell, who managed the construction of Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney concert hall. The hall was designed and planned out with heavy-duty computing–and massive amounts of paper. http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-ca-reynolds25may25.story

The internet version of the article has an excellent video tour of the Disney center.

I saw the concert hall over the course of several weeks a few months ago. The stainless steel cladding, curved and soaring, generates amazing reflected light, so beautiful and changing, from the sun. The new Bard College performance center in New York state near the Hudson River, also by Gehry, generates similar beautiful light. For both buildings, the light is ever-changing, depending on the angle of viewing and the ambient light during the course of the day.

A few weks ago some friends took me flying over Bard College on the way to Storm King. Here’s my photograph of the Gehry Building at Bard College: