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
new-things
For me, every day is a new thing.
chicago architecture visible
Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.
father mean kitchen
My father was an urchin that lived in Hell's Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there were times that were better and worse, but mostly, by the time we got to L.A., they'd lost whatever they had. And it was a sad time. And both he and I became truck drivers for different companies.
want i-can built
I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.
ties people looks
And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.
issues marketing tools
Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.
world pressure should
In an ideal world, pressure should come from below and from the top.
perception overcoming knows
I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant.
hands furniture woodworking
I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.
want dry dull
I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.
passion opportunity trying
I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity and inequality, even passion and opportunity.
father creativity stuff
My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.
cities downtown linear
I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.
architecture art ask houses people tract whether
There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.