The first weekend, we slept on futons in a large, windowed annex bedroom above his bicycle workshop.
But wander over to the corner of the studio and behold a large computer annex that looks almost like a trading floor it's part of Gehry Technologies, a separate 60-employee company that oversees design and construction processes for Gehry and outside clients.
The Palestinians contended that, according to the maps, Israel planned to annex large parts of the West Bank.
Northern leaders have not been shy about their intentions to unilaterally annex large areas of contested territory.
Naftali Bennett, who was appointed Israel's economics and trade minister following a strong showing in January's election, told a conference of settlers in Jerusalem that Israel should urgently annex large tracts of the West Bank currently under its control.
While Mr. Barak has said repeatedly that he would seek to annex large Israeli settlements, which infuriates the Palestinians, he has also made it clear that some settlements would have to be evacuated, which infuriates the settlers.
At the Camp David negotiations last summer, the Palestinians appeared prepared to accept Israel's proposal to annex large settlement clusters in exchange for a land swap and the evacuation of small isolated settlements, like Migdalim, that are home to a minority of some 50,000 settlers.
If you have time and want to see even more art, check out the Institute of Contemporary Art on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania (www.icaphila.org) or the Philadelphia Museum of Art (www.philamuseum.org), where the Perelman Building, a large, light-filled annex, opened last year in an Art Deco structure updated by Richard Gluckman, the designer of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
He has even argued that Israel should negotiate with the Palestinian Authority's Mahmoud Abbas on the basis of a (demographically agreeable) land swap, whereby Israel would annex large West Bank settlement blocs while handing over to the Palestinians three hundred thousand third-generation, Hebrew-speaking Arab citizens in towns near the pre-1967 borders.
Rebel groups and foreign forces have annexed large swaths of the country to extract gold, diamonds, tin and timber.
