Frank Gehry Quotes About Architecture
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The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.
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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.
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Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.
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You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.
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I think the biggest problem with 'industrial' architecture is that it's lost its sense of humanity. Minimalist stuff drains all the humanity out of it. That idea works great for the money thing, but it doesn't work great for the feeling thing.
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Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.
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It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it.
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I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.
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Art is about people. I think the discussion about whether architecture is art or not is lamebrain.
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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.
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People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me." Then when somebody does something different, real architecture, the push-back is amazing. People resist it. At first it's new and scary.
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I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect, and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity, and inequality, even passion and opportunity.
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The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.
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Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.
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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.
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Architecture is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it, we believe in its potential to make a difference, to enlighten and to enrich the human experience, to penetrate the barriers of misunderstandin g and provide a beautiful context for life's drama.
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Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.
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Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.
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It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.
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Generally in our world, whether in architecture or almost anywhere else, we devalue the artist, and schools at whatever level shut people down.
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I used to read more when I was a kid than I do now. It was all sort of fuel for the fire to teach you how to think and how to make things and it informed the architecture that I was doing. It's better coming in with that history and that kind of knowledge and depth of understanding of humanity that is very important for building buildings - for understanding people and how they should live and how you could make your lives better and stuff like that.
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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.
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I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.
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Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
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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.
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In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.
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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.
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There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.
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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.
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I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.
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