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
book home lamps
A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.
thinking challenges ego
I've been told I have the biggest ego in the world and that it manifests itself when you come to me and say, 'I don't like this' or 'I want a change'... and that I relish that because my ego's so big I think I can solve whatever you throw at me and make it even better. I enjoy the interaction and the challenge.
I'm a do-gooder liberal.
issues marketing tools
Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.
war cities want
Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.
obvious-things car clients
I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You start to get the scale of it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for.
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.
thinking culture world
I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings.
art home unique
The culture of France is unique because it's a culture that has a high priority on the arts, more than any other place in the world in our time since Greece. So as a practicing artist, if you will, this is home ground. They love us, so music, literature, art continues to be the center.
ego stuff architecture
You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.
new-things
For me, every day is a new thing.
people ask-me
I don't micromanage the interiors. People ask me to and I say no. I don't want to control everything.
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.
book self way
I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.