The Globe and Mail

Before reading this, you need to know a thing or two about what fires the mind of architect Frank Gehry. His love of hockey is already well known, so it wasn't surprising that Gehry immediately acknowledged the presence of Mats Sundin, Ken Dryden and Senator Frank Mahovolich at the Art Gallery of Ontario yesterday before speaking about his redesign and expansion of the AGO. But hockey didn't teach Gehry how to radically upset the conventions of modern architecture. The bashed-up contemporary art forms of artists like Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns did. Every year, he visits the pilgrimage chapel by the great Le Corbusier that sits on the top of a hill at Ronchamp, France. During one visit, he stood on the grassy plain that surrounds the chapel, looking at the boldness of the white sculpted building, and he started to cry.