Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry

Frank Owen Gehry, (born Frank Owen Goldberg; February 28, 1929) is a Canadian-American Pritzker Prize–winning architect based in Los Angeles.

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Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Tags: Time, Place, Speak

Frank Gehry

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

Tags: Work, Together, Happen

Frank Gehry

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.

Tags: Believe, Made, Look

Frank Gehry

For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.

Tags: Day, Insecurity, Ever

Frank Gehry

You`ve got to bumble forward into the unknown.

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Frank Gehry

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.

Tags: time, future, life

Frank Gehry

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.

Tags: war, cold, history

Frank Gehry

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.

Tags: work, age, life

Frank Gehry

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

Tags: feelings, life

Frank Gehry

My buildings are all on budget.

Tags: money, time, budget

Frank Gehry

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