Enlarge image Photo by Joshua White, courtesy of Frank O. Gehry & Associates.      PETER B. LEWIS BUILDING, WEATHERHEAD SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY Cleveland 1997– Asked to design a building representative of the ingenuity of Weatherhead's student-centered curriculum, Gehry responded by dramatically reconfiguring the standard Modernist box. Two towers emerge from a rectilinear brick building with cascades of metal falling from the towers to the street and, in places, puncturing the brick volume. Gehry's design is partially a response to the need for the substantial building to extend upward rather than outward due to the limited size of its lot. To avoid overwhelming the low-lying campus, Gehry divided the required floor area between two towers, with the metal cascades serving in part to veil the height changes between the building's forms. This fluid aesthetic stems directly from Gehry's unbuilt Samsung Museum of Modern Art (1995–97), in which a sculptural metal exterior eases the transition between height variations. The interior of Gehry's university building is as unconventional as its exterior. Two towers rise from the atrium like paired sculptures on stilts, providing intimate spaces within a soaring interior—much like the horse-head shaped conference center in Gehry's DG Bank Building (1995–2001) in Berlin. Classrooms are centrally located in the towers, and offices and meeting spaces along the building's perimeter. Circulation paths within the interior are designed to encourage interaction between students and faculty, while the classrooms, each off-center and unique in shape, reconfigure traditional academic seating arrangements.