Gehry vs. The TechnoGeeks

MIT’s new computer science building is a thing of beauty, “a gleaming 440,000-square-foot foundry for genius created by the world’s most famous designer of buildings. The Ray and Maria Stata Center for Computer, Information, and Intelligence Sciences is the latest CAD-spun, holy-shit wonder from Frank Gehry. So all systems go? Ready for liftoff? Not exactly.” The technicians, engineers, and other tech geeks who will inhabit the place seem totally nonplussed by the whole building, labeling it “silly.” After all, to the technical mind, there is no real reason for a building to look the way that Gehry’s mind-bending structures inevitably do. Can logic and art coexist at MIT?