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
Frank Gehry quotes about
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.
computer architect parental
Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.
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.
computer
With computers we can work everything out from the beginning.
architecture building
Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.
being-yourself artist advice
The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.
being-yourself example messages
The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself.
being-yourself self-esteem messages
The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.
new-things
For me, every day is a new thing.
architecture art ask houses people tract whether
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.
architecture sometimes
It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it.