The Ottawa Citizen

Frank Gehry is a talented tease. For the past five decades, the Canadian-born architectural superstar has railed against convention, twisting metal into unbelievable shapes that make you think he has ingested a wee bit of LSD or read too many Kafka books. In reality, a sophisticated computer program transforms his radical visions into soaring, convoluted shapes that defy logic and blast away the mundane. I just wish this silver-haired radical would focus his wild imagination on putting the Gehry spark into the design of homes where 99 per cent of us sit down to dinner at night and then crawl into bed. You know, the older urban or newer suburban homes that are often dissed as second rate, boring or churned out by a giant cookie-cutting machine?