Forster's description of the building (excerpts). "...the museum has been anchored in the cityscape of Bilbao [Portugal] like a vast circus tent surrounded by a congerie[s] of caravans, for the variety of events anticipated to take place there requires large and ever varying venues. Subsidiary spaces are clustered together, squeezed through the bottleneck between river and embankment, made to duck under bridges, and finally allowed to soar over the building's core in a spectacular canopy. All this implies motion induced by internal tension and external compression and gives rise to the towering and seemingly revolving space of the central hall.." And later, "...the Bilbao Guggenheim must be reckoned overweight, overdone, and overwhelming. Its excessive qualities are precisely those that enable it to assume several different roles at once. It is an immovable pile in the city and a sinuous creature draping its body along a narrow ledge above the river. As a luminous cave on the inside, and a metallic mountain from without, the museum appears to be both a perfect fit and a perfect stranger in its site. Excess designates the state of the building, exuberance its true nature." And, "From the very start, the sketches for Bilbao seemed to have the capacity to soar. They expanded energy as if it were free, and this freedom not only generated forms previously thought to be impossible, but also unfit for integration into a complicated site." Forster also emphasizes how Gehry thinks of the complexly curvilinear elements of his buildings as bodies which he "sets...in motion as a choreographer does his or her dancers."
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