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
teacher school kids
It's a metaphor for what we're being told: "Just stay in the box, kid, don't muddy the water." Parents say it to their kids. Teachers say it. Schools do. And so people become immune to the sameness.
hate i-hate architect
The thing is, I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work.
hate
Cardboard is another material that's ubiquitous and everybody hates, yet when I made furniture with it everybody loved it.
different
As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.
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.
ability art beautiful context creating designs discovery feeling inspired jewelry led living painters process provides realize shared sketching spirit vision ways worked
Jewelry is an art form, ... In conceptualizing designs for Tiffany, I worked as I always do, sketching and creating models. Sculptors and painters have inspired me with their ability to make things with their own hands. This process led to the discovery of new ways to give feeling and spirit to form, and realize our shared vision of jewelry that provides a beautiful context for living now.
along captured dress edwardian forms historical image movement particular provided references woman
One particular image of an Edwardian woman captured my imagination, ... The movement of the dress as she promenaded along the seafront provided the inspiration for the historical references and sculptured forms in the design.
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.
saint architecture finest
The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.
quantity
Here we are surrounded by material that's being manufactured in unimaginable quantities worldwide and is used everywhere. I don't like it, no one likes it, and yet it's pervasive. We don't even see it.
accepting inevitable
Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable.
linear
I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.
responsibility serious taking-responsibility
If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility.
home rich rich-people
I didn't have any interest in doing rich people's homes. I still don't.