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
artist italian influence
One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
sometimes blur knows
Time is just a blur for me. I don't know what - I don't even know where I am sometimes.
teacher school kids
It's a metaphor for what we're being told: "Just stay in the box, kid, don't muddy the water." Parents say it to their kids. Teachers say it. Schools do. And so people become immune to the sameness.
beautiful done computer
Erich Mendelsohn's drawings are expressive and beautiful. If he'd had the computers we have now, everything I've done he would have done before me. I would have had to figure out something else.
sometimes refuse paid
I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes.
thinking play cities
Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.
art thinking people
Art is about people. I think the discussion about whether architecture is art or not is lamebrain.
eye architecture great-men
There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.
people
You've got to like the people you work with.
being-yourself artist advice
The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.
mean vacation knows
I love working. I don't know what the word vacation means.
wall office people
People live and work in uninspiring environments, but look inside those rooms. Look at the painted walls and the decorations. People rebel even in the most controlled office environment in which they're not allowed to do anything. You see the little bulletin board in front of a person's desk with their photos, clippings, cartoons and whatever else.
mean thinking drawing
I know I draw without taking my pen off the page. I just keep going, and that my drawings I think of them as scribbles. I don't think they mean anything to anybody except to me, and then at the end of the day, the end of the project, they wheel out these little drawings and they're damn close to what the finished building is and it's the drawing...
knows ifs
If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.