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
thinking culture world
I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings.
art home unique
The culture of France is unique because it's a culture that has a high priority on the arts, more than any other place in the world in our time since Greece. So as a practicing artist, if you will, this is home ground. They love us, so music, literature, art continues to be the center.
ego stuff architecture
You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.
new-things
For me, every day is a new thing.
people ask-me
I don't micromanage the interiors. People ask me to and I say no. I don't want to control everything.
ties people looks
And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.
book self way
I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.
ideas tables facts
The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works.
quantity
Here we are surrounded by material that's being manufactured in unimaginable quantities worldwide and is used everywhere. I don't like it, no one likes it, and yet it's pervasive. We don't even see it.
I work from the inside out.
experience
Let the experience begin!
simple two people
There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.
care
I don't know whose box I'm in, and I don't really care.
plans i-can ifs
If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.