Frank Gehry & MIT

Lawrence Biemiller, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, wrote this article about the MIT lawsuit against Frank Gehry, over the Ray and Maria Stata Center, MIT's Suit Against Frank Gehry Astonished Campus Architects.

His detractors— and there are many— are reveling in the news that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has filed a negligence lawsuit against the firm headed by Frank O. Gehry, the most famous American architect since Frank Lloyd Wright. But architects and others familiar with how buildings get constructed on campuses are marveling that what probably began as a routine disagreement about construction issues could not be resolved before ending up in court.

Shortly thereafter, SCUPer O. Robert ("Bob") Simha wrote the Chronicle a letter published under the title, The MIT Case Is All Too Common.

Then followed another letter to the Chronicle from SCUPer Jim Winer, published under the title, Gehry Requires Big Budgets, Receptive Clients.

Stay tuned. For background, here's a Boston Globe article on the lawsuit.