The Eames Institute has a Joe Gebbia problem

What would Charles and Ray make of his praise for Alex Jones and the John Birch Society? For that matter, what would they make of Edward “Big Balls” Coristine? Plus: the Stahl House struggles to find a buyer; the Lucas Museum fences itself in; and Zumthor licks his LACMA wounds in Basel

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Christopher Hawthorne
October 09, 2026

A rendering of a proposal by Herzog & de Meuron and EHDD to remake the former Birkenstock campus in Novato, California, as a museum for the Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity. Courtesy of Berlin Rosen

For several months I’ve been thinking that it might be time to write something about the Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity and one of its key patrons, the Elon Musk pal and DOGE veteran Joe Gebbia. Events this week forced the issue. At this stage it might be a more pointed choice not to write about the Gebbia and the Institute, and the ties between them, than to do so.

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