![]() ![]() Instead of revealing a model of what a Gehry-designed prison might look like, the film follows the students as they pursue an academic-year-long investigation into prison design. Dwayne Reginald Betts, right, was incarcerated for eight years, and is now working on his PhD at Yale Law School. Gehry, along with investor George Soros and his philanthropic Open Society Foundations, wanted to explore redesigning prisons for a future time with much lower incarceration in the United States. Building Justice focuses on the young architects enrolled in concurrent master studios led by Gehry at SCI-Arc and the Yale School of Architecture. He explained, “I never thought I would be going into prisons with Frank Gehry, but it was a great thing to do.”įrank Gehry’s name is in the film’s title, but this time around, the spotlight isn’t on him or his work, although the famed architect commands attention whenever he’s on screen. Guilfoyle has worked with Gehry in the past-he produced Sydney Pollack’s Sketches of Frank Gehry (2006) for American Masters-but he said in a post-screening discussion that the topic of this film came as a surprise, even to him. What would it look like if Frank Gehry ( ANA 1988, NA 1994) built a prison? That question is at the heart of Frank Gehry: Building Justice, a 2018 documentary directed by Ultan Guilfoyle that made its Los Angeles premiere at the Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF) last month.
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