Pilar Viladas Tours Gehry’s ‘Muscual But Friendly’ Serpentine

Staying in the UK for just a minute more, we read the Guardian‘s Stephen Bayley as he took a walk through Frank Gehry‘s Serpentine Gallery and asked readers to consider the starchitect’s flaws as they admired all the mystical weirdness that is all things Gehry, but now we can see how our own critics have reacted to the temporary structure, as the New York Times‘ Pilar Viladas took her own walk around the Serpentine recently and reported back with this short review. In contrast to Bayley, Vildas gushes all over the building, saying it’s definitely strange, “an explosion in an architecture factory,” but beautiful because of it (“…classic Gehry: muscular but friendly”). But in all fairness, Bayley had several hundred words to wander around in and muse about the larger Gehry picture, whereas Viladas works within just a couple of short paragraphs, so you get what you get. And really, who can’t use a new set of eyes and the information that follows when talking about a new bit of Gehry’s mind.

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