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
blind
I'm preprogrammed emotionally and intellectually not to go down blind alleys. I don't waste the time. I automatically edit out whatever's impractical.
people los-angeles
In Tokyo, London or Los Angeles people go into McDonald's and the restaurants are identical and people are comfortable. It's unthreatening.
wonder alienation dissatisfaction
We deny our nature to build and create and then wonder why there is so much alienation and dissatisfaction.
patriotic people feel-good
Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.
There are places that are so designed they're unlivable.
artist architect
Artists dismiss me as an architect, so I'm not in their box, and architects dismiss me as an artist, so I'm not in their box.
holding-hands agree resourcefulness
When you agree to collaborate, you agree to jump off a cliff holding hands with everyone, hoping the resourcefulness of each will insure that you all land on your feet.
computer
With computers we can work everything out from the beginning.
people desire individual
Everyone has a desire, if not a need, to use their individual signatures. Whenever people meet to talk about a project, even stuffy old businessmen, they say they want to create something new.
sports people mind
I'm of two minds about doing any interviews these days. It seems a lot of the world is out to play gotcha with me. I guess they always go after people these days. It's sport.
get-better desire
If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the marketplace responds to the public's needs and desires.
painting
Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries.
Ideas exist in the marketplace; they are thrown out for everyone to use.
world
I am just relating to the world we live in. I see some order in it, even though it looks like mush.