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
unique different elitist
It's not elitist to acknowledge that everyone has a unique signature and everyone is different.
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.
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.
yearn york
We want that center, we yearn for it, we need it. It shouldn't look like New York or Paris, it should look like us.
expression design may
Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.
bad-ass people architecture
I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.
badass bad-ass talking
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
kind talent persons
Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.
responsibility way responsible
Take what comes your way. Do the best with it. Be responsible as you can and something good will happen...
knows ifs
If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.
expression best-work
Your best work is your expression of yourself.
being-yourself artist advice
The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.
motivational work sweat
For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.