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
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.
city county desire special
I think that there is a desire on the part of the city and county to do something special there.
ability art beautiful context creating designs discovery feeling inspired jewelry led living painters process provides realize shared sketching spirit vision ways worked
Jewelry is an art form, ... In conceptualizing designs for Tiffany, I worked as I always do, sketching and creating models. Sculptors and painters have inspired me with their ability to make things with their own hands. This process led to the discovery of new ways to give feeling and spirit to form, and realize our shared vision of jewelry that provides a beautiful context for living now.
hate
Cardboard is another material that's ubiquitous and everybody hates, yet when I made furniture with it everybody loved it.
kids hockey garden
When you were a kid, if you went to the Montreal Forum or a hockey game at Maple Leaf Gardens, which I did, there was a great feeling. The new stadiums don't have it. Why don't they have it? Building codes.
unique different elitist
It's not elitist to acknowledge that everyone has a unique signature and everyone is different.
We're physiologically wired differently.
childhood preparation individuality
Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction.
inspiration who-you-are
That's where you have to look for your inspiration. Don't separate the rest of your life - who you are, what you love - from your work.
home rich rich-people
I didn't have any interest in doing rich people's homes. I still don't.
appreciation thinking friendly
If the room is friendly to a relationship between lecturer and audience, you feel everything - the tension, the appreciation. I think the audience feels it too.
hero men design
One of my unsung heroes is Erich Mendelsohn. I met him when I was a student and he was a cranky old man and very unpleasant. But if you go to his Einstein Tower in Potsdam, Germany you see an enormous intellect at work with a language that was personal and new. It has a sense of urban design and of theater and procession I hadn't seen before.
hate i-hate journalist
I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.
saint architecture finest
The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.