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
hands furniture woodworking
I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.
school people design
When people condemn me for designing iconic buildings in cities and not having an idea what a city is, they haven't done their homework. I started in urban design and city planning. It's just that when I got out of school there wasn't much of a market for that. There still isn't.
building budgets
My buildings are all on budget.
world pressure should
In an ideal world, pressure should come from below and from the top.
believe cities looks
Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.
beautiful church architect
The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history.
gone wells looking-for-work
Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.
book home lamps
A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.
thinking challenges ego
I've been told I have the biggest ego in the world and that it manifests itself when you come to me and say, 'I don't like this' or 'I want a change'... and that I relish that because my ego's so big I think I can solve whatever you throw at me and make it even better. I enjoy the interaction and the challenge.
I'm a do-gooder liberal.
issues marketing tools
Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.
war cities want
Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.
obvious-things car clients
I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You start to get the scale of it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for.
father creativity stuff
My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.