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
real people scary
People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me." Then when somebody does something different, real architecture, the push-back is amazing. People resist it. At first it's new and scary.
architecture sometimes
It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it.
people denial conformity
We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.
artist architect elitist
Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist.
environment our-environment
There is an order to our environment, a broader order.
beautiful art people
In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If he could do that, I could emulate him.
individuality trying
Ultimately you can't repress individuality, even though you can try.
people culture problem
Some cultures tried to stop people from expressing themselves. In Mao's China, for example, the Communists tried to stop individual expression. For them the payoff was a society of equality. The problem of course is that it didn't work.
beach kids parent
There's a drive in us to express ourselves in some way or form. We pick up whatever material is available. It's primitive. Kids see sand on the beach, build something and show their parents: "Look what I did, Mama." It's necessary to us.
art literature worried
We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried.
people
People are searching for something they don't have in their lives. There's an unfulfilled need.
running rap complicated
The rap on me on the street is the opposite - I'm impractical, I'm more expensive, it's too complicated and I run over budgets, which isn't true. None of that's true and there's plenty of documentation if anybody needs 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.
world footprint building
China is building cities for a 20 to 40 percent increase in population. India is quickly growing. The carbon footprints of that and other development around the world are overwhelming.