Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry
Frank Owen Gehry, CC28 February 1929) is a Canadian-born American architect, residing in Los Angeles...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth28 February 1929
CityToronto, Canada
CountryUnited States of America
kids hockey garden
When you were a kid, if you went to the Montreal Forum or a hockey game at Maple Leaf Gardens, which I did, there was a great feeling. The new stadiums don't have it. Why don't they have it? Building codes.
unique different elitist
It's not elitist to acknowledge that everyone has a unique signature and everyone is different.
We're physiologically wired differently.
childhood preparation individuality
Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction.
inspiration who-you-are
That's where you have to look for your inspiration. Don't separate the rest of your life - who you are, what you love - from your work.
home rich rich-people
I didn't have any interest in doing rich people's homes. I still don't.
appreciation thinking friendly
If the room is friendly to a relationship between lecturer and audience, you feel everything - the tension, the appreciation. I think the audience feels it too.
hero men design
One of my unsung heroes is Erich Mendelsohn. I met him when I was a student and he was a cranky old man and very unpleasant. But if you go to his Einstein Tower in Potsdam, Germany you see an enormous intellect at work with a language that was personal and new. It has a sense of urban design and of theater and procession I hadn't seen before.
hate i-hate journalist
I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.
saint architecture finest
The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.
technology design world
Everything - design and technology and materials - has changed since the World Trade Center was built. A lot of it has to do with computers, which allow us to be far more efficient as well as structurally sound.
together building electrical
You have to do every detail on every bloody piece of the building. You have to know how the engineering works. You have to know how the fittings go together. You have to master the mechanical, electrical, acoustical - everything.
computer architect parental
Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.
school artist people
Generally in our world, whether in architecture or almost anywhere else, we devalue the artist, and schools at whatever level shut people down.