From left: Frank Gehry and Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner
Frank Gehry is fired up about a lot of things these days, the least of which being the semantics his fame inspires. “I don’t know who invented that f*cking word ‘starchitect,’” Gehry told the Independent. “I am not a ‘starchitect,’ I am an architect.” He was not nearly so cantankerous on the subject of his ousting from the Atlantic Yards development, however, a move made by developer Bruce Ratner that riled community members. The problem, according to Gehry, came “down to a set of opposing interests that blocked the project.”