Gehry Refuses To Revise Ike Memorial
A memorial to President Dwight Eisenhower, long planned for a four-acre plot near the base of the Capitol, in Washington DC, received yet another setback last week when its architect, Frank Gehry, rebuffed calls from the Commission of Fine Arts to revise his designs. Gehry, the Los Angeles-based innovator beset known for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, has been locked in a struggle with descendants of the president who hate the design, as well as traditionalists who have compared the plans to “an incomplete highway overpass.†Ouch.
