The principle of disorder or, if you will, of fragmentary order that Frank Gehry uses as a characteristic feature has here an application in the suburban Santa Monica: a scattered neighborhood, concrete and asphalt, and a commercial and cultural program; small museum, parking, stores, restaurant and offices. The site is large enough not to force a compact design, and the architect continues to test his formula of decomposed composition. It consists of arranging a simple grid that arranges the floor plan, and then dropping acidic drops of disorder that dissolve the grid and eat up part of it. In a lot with three interior boundaries, this dissolving disorder is applied, naturally, on the street façade. The holes it creates thus serve as a penetration into the interior of the block...[+]