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
sports people mind
I'm of two minds about doing any interviews these days. It seems a lot of the world is out to play gotcha with me. I guess they always go after people these days. It's sport.
get-better desire
If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the marketplace responds to the public's needs and desires.
painting
Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries.
world
I am just relating to the world we live in. I see some order in it, even though it looks like mush.
real people scary
People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me." Then when somebody does something different, real architecture, the push-back is amazing. People resist it. At first it's new and scary.
architecture sometimes
It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it.
art children architecture
Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.
people denial conformity
We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.
artist architect elitist
Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist.
environment our-environment
There is an order to our environment, a broader order.
beautiful art people
In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If he could do that, I could emulate him.
individuality trying
Ultimately you can't repress individuality, even though you can try.
people culture problem
Some cultures tried to stop people from expressing themselves. In Mao's China, for example, the Communists tried to stop individual expression. For them the payoff was a society of equality. The problem of course is that it didn't work.
beach kids parent
There's a drive in us to express ourselves in some way or form. We pick up whatever material is available. It's primitive. Kids see sand on the beach, build something and show their parents: "Look what I did, Mama." It's necessary to us.