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
ideas tables facts
The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works.
quantity
Here we are surrounded by material that's being manufactured in unimaginable quantities worldwide and is used everywhere. I don't like it, no one likes it, and yet it's pervasive. We don't even see it.
I work from the inside out.
experience
Let the experience begin!
simple two people
There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.
care
I don't know whose box I'm in, and I don't really care.
plans i-can ifs
If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.
feelings movement done
There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.
done stuff sour
There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes.
artist architecture
In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.
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.
play people trying
I found the material that people hated the most and used the most. So, I was going and try and see if I could play with it sculpturally.
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.
mean dancer world
Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for one of the best avant-garde dancers in the world.