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
feelings movement done
There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.
done stuff sour
There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes.
artist architecture
In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.
eye thinking hands
I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building.
play people trying
I found the material that people hated the most and used the most. So, I was going and try and see if I could play with it sculpturally.
museums years people
Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work because of Bilbao.
mean dancer world
Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for one of the best avant-garde dancers in the world.
people way belief
I found myself starting architecture with a deep social, Jewish, liberal conscience, and the belief that architecture is for the people. It was a do-gooder base; I was born and raised that way. I was for blacks, whites, Italians, Poles, whatever.
choices looks signatures
You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature.
people slow-down
I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80.
thinking years political
The present is filled with flotsam and irony and chaos and disorder in all arenas, political and sociological. I think we have to work in the present even if it's awkward, even if it's not necessarily good, even if we don't understand it ourselves. You only find out 10, maybe 20 years later what was going on.
starting-over healthy insecurity
Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.
money support credibility
You have to build up a credibility before the support comes to you.
vacation people generations
Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.