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
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.
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.
cities downtown linear
I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.
green building program
I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not.
democracy want problem
Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.
done shapes want
You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.