Is It Goodbye to Architectural Excess?

Host:

Frances Anderton

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The economic crash has brought a decade of lavish “icon”-building to a halt. Does this mean an architecture of “excess” will be replaced by one of “relevance?” Frances Anderton speaks with Frank Gehry and Architecture for Humanity’s Cameron Sinclair.

Banner image: Kutamba AIDS Orphans School; Segment image: Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao

Guests:

Cameron Sinclair: Co-founder of Architecture for Humanity
Frank Gehry: Architect and partner at Gehry Partners

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