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
architecture art business call given people product rises
Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
architecture art ask houses people tract whether
There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.
saint architecture finest
The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.
computer architect parental
Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.
thinking people architecture
That's why you go into architecture - at least I did - to do things for people. I think most of us are idealists. You start out that way, anyway.
artist architect
Artists dismiss me as an architect, so I'm not in their box, and architects dismiss me as an artist, so I'm not in their box.
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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.
artist architect elitist
Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist.
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.
war architecture environment
Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.
chicago architecture visible
Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.
moving men architecture
I attended a lecture by a gray-haired old man from Finland, who later I discovered was the architect Alvar Aalto. I was very moved. I wasn't interested in architecture, but it was a moving thing I've never forgotten.
beautiful church architect
The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history.