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
yearn york
We want that center, we yearn for it, we need it. It shouldn't look like New York or Paris, it should look like us.
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.
accepting inevitable
Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable.
linear
I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.
wonder alienation dissatisfaction
We deny our nature to build and create and then wonder why there is so much alienation and dissatisfaction.
computer architect parental
Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.
computer
With computers we can work everything out from the beginning.
holding-hands agree resourcefulness
When you agree to collaborate, you agree to jump off a cliff holding hands with everyone, hoping the resourcefulness of each will insure that you all land on your feet.
painting
Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries.
architecture building
Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.
technology design world
Everything - design and technology and materials - has changed since the World Trade Center was built. A lot of it has to do with computers, which allow us to be far more efficient as well as structurally sound.
accepting inevitable
We don't see the banality, but we accept banality. We accept it as inevitable, and it's not.
environment our-environment
There is an order to our environment, a broader order.
hope people wander york
I hope that people will wander through it. It's a spread-out downtown. It's an L.A. downtown, it's not a New York downtown.