tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10923291.post3438873508158886612..comments2024-03-17T15:59:53.999-05:00Comments on ArchitectureChicago PLUS: Gehry's Web - On its 10th Anniversary, How the visual music of Frank Gehry's Pritzker Pavilion binds together Millennium Park and the City around It.Lynn Beckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03759748613223711212noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10923291.post-85880040011743083042014-07-16T11:24:20.066-05:002014-07-16T11:24:20.066-05:00Thanks for the comment - you're one of the few...Thanks for the comment - you're one of the few people actually made it through the post - but nowhere do I claim you called the Pritzker Pavilion a folly. <br /><br />To quote: "Blair Kamin compared the Pritzker Pavilion to the follies" etc. Which is exactly what you did. In the second sentence of the paragraph you quote, you talk about the follies of European estates. In next sentence you say there are now such follies in Millennium Park" Back where I come from, that's called comparing. <br /><br />Nowhere in these paragraphs -other than the reference to Wrigley Square do you name the specific attractions you consider follies. In fact, you refer to "isolated objects, or pavilions .. ." which makes it reasonable suppose you were referring to the only Millennium Park that is specifically called a Pavilion, ie., the Pritzker Pavilion. So thanks for clearing that up.<br /><br />However, I would definitely call the pavilion a "folly" in the sense that a great part of what makes the Pritzker distinctive are those great swirls, which for the most part are completely non-utilitarian and picturesque. Not that there's anything wrong with that.Lynn Beckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03759748613223711212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10923291.post-60833412718066243772014-07-16T10:17:01.223-05:002014-07-16T10:17:01.223-05:00Thank you for the mention in your piece. However, ...Thank you for the mention in your piece. However, it is inaccurate to say that I categorized the Pritzker Pavilion as a folly. The pavilion has a use, unlike the Bean, the Crown Fountain and the Millennium Monumental at Wrigley Square, which have no specific program or function. Here is what I wrote when Millennium Park opened: <br /><br />"Forget the idea of calling Millennium Park Daley's Folly. Wealthy English, French and Italian landowners once built follies in the gardens on their estates. Now, in an exquisitely democratic twist, there are follies in the people's park.<br /> "Today, because its landscape isn't fully matured, these follies suffer from the stand-alone syndrome, coming awfully close to the theme park model of isolated objects, or pavilions, that hit you over the head with all the subtlety of a frying pan.<br /> But once the landscape matures, as it has done in Wrigley Square, it should provide the subtle progression of vistas, pathways and discovery that distinguishes an artful park from an artless theme park. That is the reasonable prediction of Chicago's Terry Guen, who worked with Carol Yetkin, also of Chicago, to prepare the overall landscape plan. And the growth of the landscape to date backs her up."Blair Kaminnoreply@blogger.com