Gehry rejects narrative allusion in favor of hands-on material work

Evidence

Gehry has indeed observed that Venturi “is into storytelling…I’m really interested in this hands-on thing, and not in telling stories,” an apt enough characterization of the passion for periodization from which (among other things) the concept of Postmodernism comes. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 277

Categorization

• DEFINE: Helps clarify the parody-pastiche distinction by showing Gehry’s material practice is neither narrative nor historicist.