Art Center Puts Gehry Building Plan on Hold—Or Not

Earlier this month, we told you about the tensions a-brewing at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and seriously flustering students, faculty, and alumni, many of them not averse to a good petition or two. Hanging in the balance were ambitious plans for the school’s expansion, which were to include a $50 million design research center designed by Frank Gehry and championed by the Art Center’s controversial yet charismatic president, Richard Koshalek. What a difference a week or so makes! “The Art Center thing has blown up and fizzled out, and they are not renewing Richard’s contract,” UnBeige editor emeritus Alissa Walker tells us.

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