“If Gehry now stands atop a mountain he spent much of his career trying to ascend — driven by a fierce ambition he has often tried to conceal beneath what he calls an aw-shucks persona — he does so at a moment when the mountain itself is beginning to crumble beneath his feet. After a decade in which a handful of leading architects became global stars — with Gehry leading the charge — and private and government clients alike were willing to finance jaw-dropping feats of architectural innovation, funding for new construction has suddenly vanished, as if overnight.”