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
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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.
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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.
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When I went to Harvard and studied planning, I found I didn't have the skills or the strength to become the kind of public person who could go out and lobby government agencies.
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Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what he wants, and it creates a collision of thinking. In cities, that means people build whatever they want.
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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.
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This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off.
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My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself.
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I was in Peru and visited a building near Lima built by the Incas. It was low in height, with no windows at all, but all the way in the back there was air movement. And I couldn't figure out how they'd done it; it was incredible.
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I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. 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.
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It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it.
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Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.