The Disney Hall Debate--Gehry Supporters Have Say
The hostile response of some of your readers to a photo of a model of Disney Hall is entirely predictable. Every innovative building in history has been denounced when it was first proposed: the new is always disturbing. Concerned Parisians wrote angry letters to the press in 1887, decrying the Eiffel Tower--two years before it was built--as a “useless and monstrous” architectural caprice.
It is of little importance whether one thinks the Disney model looks more like a pile of broken crockery than a galleon in full sail. This isn’t a Miss America contest. Judgment of the building--Is it a great concert hall? Does it enrich downtown more than the fortress-like Music Center? Does it have the qualities of good architecture?--must be reserved until it is completed and in use.
MICHAEL WEBB
Los Angeles
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