Frank Gehry's stunning creations, like the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, attract hordes of tourists who are eager to see the building as much as its contents. He has even become something of a celebrity in his own right.
Over the course of the documentary we see buildings literally take shape.
They start off as a few elegant sketches on Gehry's pad. Next comes an enjoyable-looking playgroup style stage where Gehry and his associates make models out of cardboard and sticky tape. He doesn't quite take material from a wastepaper basket as a famous sketch in The Simpsons suggests he might, but there's certainly a lot of screwing up of bits of card and playing around with scissors.
After that, things get more complex as the models are input to computers and the process begins of working out whether they will actually stand.
Incredibly, we are told that Gehry doesn't know how to use a computer 'except to throw it at someone'. Despite this, it was his early embrace of programming technology that enabled him to realise some of his most gloriously experimental creations.
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