Frank Gehry Quotes About Design
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Everything - design and technology and materials - has changed since the World Trade Center was built. A lot of it has to do with computers, which allow us to be far more efficient as well as structurally sound.
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You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.
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There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.
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Generally people are more impressed with the services and the comfort issues than the design.
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When people condemn me for designing iconic buildings in cities and not having an idea what a city is, they haven't done their homework. I started in urban design and city planning. It's just that when I got out of school there wasn't much of a market for that. There still isn't.
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Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
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One of my unsung heroes is Erich Mendelsohn. I met him when I was a student and he was a cranky old man and very unpleasant. But if you go to his Einstein Tower in Potsdam, Germany you see an enormous intellect at work with a language that was personal and new. It has a sense of urban design and of theater and procession I hadn't seen before.
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I'm going to design the container and interior spaces. You bring your own stuff to it and make it your own.
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Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.
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