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Originally Posted by xiandude

Only 3 options? Wright was an ass; Gehry is a one-trick pony (design something out of plastic, melt it in a oven, and you have a passable Gehry design); Pei is one of the best. You should also include Michael Graves, Phillip Johnson, Louis Kahn, Cesar Pelli,Louis SullivanEero Saarinen, and a few others.

Also, Kansas City is the Mecca of sports architecture. HOK Sport, HNTB, Ellerbe Becket, 360, and a few other spin-off firms are all located there. It all started when Kivett Meyers Architects teamed with Deaton out of Denver to design the Truman Sports Complex. HNTB bought KV, and HOK and Ellerbe were spin-offs from HNTB. 360 spun off from HOK; and Crawford spun off from Ellerbe. There are a bunch of other smaller players in the market as well.

Basically I was thinking how great IM Pei was and all the iconic buildings he had done but how most people favored FLW. So I googled "greatest architects" or something like that and the Gehry guy kept coming up. Then I decided to make a poll to see if people would give reasons why they like FLW. I bet if he didn't have a middle name, peole wouldn't have thought he was so great. So most of the guys you mentioned I had never heard of. Maybe I wasn't the most qualified person to make the poll, but to my knowledge, no one in the 7.5 year history of ChiefsPlanet had made an architect poll before.