'Hoard Your Stuff,' Says Frank Gehry, 'There Are Great Riches To Be Had!'

Frank Gehry and company are seeing dollar signs, according to this piece in the NY Times, “For Architects, the Archives as Gold Mine.” In the past, says the article, it was something of a grateful honor for famous architects (and anyone else in creative fields for that matter) to donate their entire body of notes and scribbles to a university or museum. But now there’s big money to be made in handing them off and that’s exactly what those in the know (and those whose work is deemed important enough to purchase, of course) are doing.