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Frank Gehry’s house, designed for living

By Robert Campbell

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  January 22, 2012

Architects are always giving each other prizes for good design. Unfortunately, the prizes often go to buildings that are liked by nobody but other architects. The classic case for Boston is surely Boston City Hall. In the bicentennial year of 1976, a national vote among architects and historians named this powerful but sometimes grim structure as one of the 10 greatest works of architecture in American history. The public doesn’t agree. So there’s a taste gap between the general public and the subculture of architects. Why does it matter?

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