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IN 2000, when M. J. Gladstone began thinking about the design of his weekend house, he didn’t initially focus on a floor plan, or materials, or even an architectural style, but rather a shape. “I want a 25-foot-diameter octagon,” he wrote to his architect back in 2000.
“I don’t want to give it away — it’s an asset,” Mr. Gehry said. “It’s the one thing in your life you build up, and you own it. And I’ve been spending a lot of rent to preserve it.”
Mr. Gehry, 78, is among a small but influential number of celebrity architects who are considering selling their archives — which can include tens of thousands of objects, from multiple large-scale models and reams of drawings to correspondence and other records — even as they continue to practice.