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
sometimes blur knows
Time is just a blur for me. I don't know what - I don't even know where I am sometimes.
eye architecture great-men
There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.
cities use architecture
The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.
being-yourself example messages
The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself.
being-yourself self-esteem messages
The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.
ideas collaboration
I like the idea of collaboration - it pushes you. It's a richer experience...
artist italian influence
One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
pie interaction greater
The whole can be greater than the sum of it's parts, that we all have something to put in the pie to make it better, and that the collaborative interaction works.
vacation people generations
Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.
money support credibility
You have to build up a credibility before the support comes to you.
starting-over healthy insecurity
Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.
choices looks signatures
You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature.
museums years people
Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work because of Bilbao.
eye thinking hands
I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building.