What If?: We Broke the Rules

              In class we are currently working on the Frank Gehry project. A project where we have been given the task by our teacher to create a given building from scratch and make it exactly as the teacher requests. If I had not seen the film about Frank Gehry, I would have assumed this project came with a lot of rules. When doing something for a customer the worker must always work to please them and only do as they say. But, after watching the film about Frank Gehry, I realized his philosophy about breaking the rules. Frank Gehry thinks outside of the box and tends to break the rules or the "status quo" when building these amazing buildings he is known for.
            Growing up in the suburbs we are always surrounded by these cookie cutter houses. We have such a strong status quo that when broken the community is in utter shock. But what if we broke from this status quo and began making up our own rules? What would happen to the community? The major question here is does it make you a bad person if you break the rules? Frank Gehry constantly breaks the rules of architecture and creates these beautiful and memorial buildings we all have seen today, but does that mean the same for us? Will good come out of our rule breaking, or will we be shunned for trying something new. In a community where every person is just like the next we need to learn to loosen up and break the rules because who know what will happen, we may be the next Frank Gehry.