What If Frank Gehry Met AI?

“Many artists hate AI,” writes Katy Cowan of Creative Bloom, “but Refik Anadol believes it has a lot to offer.” His new show at the Guggenheim Bilbao, Artificial Realities: Coral, explores what happens when machine learning meets one of architecture’s most recognisable voices, Frank Gehry.

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Using AI to reinterpret Gehry’s early physical models, Anadol creates a living, shifting landscape of colour and form. The results are mesmerising. Familiar curves become fluid and strange. Structure dissolves into movement. It’s Gehry, but not quite.

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What I loved about this piece is what it suggests about authorship, evolution, and the spaces in between. Design here isn’t final or fixed, it’s adaptive, open to reinterpretation. It’s a reminder that legacy doesn’t always mean preservation. Sometimes it means letting go, and seeing what new forms emerge.

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For anyone shaping places or brands, it’s a quiet nudge: be less precious. Let ideas breathe. And don’t be afraid to hand the pencil over - just to see what happens.