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Before the Buildings

Through tomorrow, Leslie Feely Fine Art will showcase models and drawings by architect Frank Gehry in New York.

From The New York Sun -- Interior Design, 1/11/2008 12:00:00 AM

Architectural drawings and models do not easily inhabit gallery spaces. The reach of three dimensions and the impact of size seem so crucial to creating the drama of architecture that buildings in miniature or on paper tend to fall flat. Further, architecture is about interaction: between people and space, people and edifices, and also, in the design process, which demands collaboration between architects and patrons, between people and other people. No such intercourse occurs in the gallery.

The work of Frank Gehry, however, appears to be an exception. Perhaps because his buildings are not just dramatic but operatic, perhaps because they so unabashedly flirt with sculpture, his work translates fairly easily into the viewing room. One can decide for oneself just how well it translates by going to Leslie Feely Fine Art, which is exhibiting a host of process models and drawings until January 12.

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