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
art literature worried
We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried.
people
People are searching for something they don't have in their lives. There's an unfulfilled need.
running rap complicated
The rap on me on the street is the opposite - I'm impractical, I'm more expensive, it's too complicated and I run over budgets, which isn't true. None of that's true and there's plenty of documentation if anybody needs it.
different
As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.
world footprint building
China is building cities for a 20 to 40 percent increase in population. India is quickly growing. The carbon footprints of that and other development around the world are overwhelming.
artist
Everybody's an artist. Unfortunately we don't treat them as such.
people design comfort
Generally people are more impressed with the services and the comfort issues than the design.
responsibility serious taking-responsibility
If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility.
people architecture arguing
That's what you have to find in architecture. You have to find your signature. When you find it, you're the only expert on it. People can say they like it or don't like it. They can argue about it, but it's yours.
done shapes want
You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.
war architecture environment
Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.
democracy want problem
Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.
art school
It should begin much earlier with arts education in the American school system, which is sadly deficient.
cities downtown linear
I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.