Frank Gehry Quotes
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Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.
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You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.
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Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.
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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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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.
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Take what comes your way. Do the best with it. Be responsible as you can and something good will happen.
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I'm a do-gooder liberal.
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I don't know whose box I'm in, and I don't really care.
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The culture of France is unique because it's a culture that has a high priority on the arts, more than any other place in the world in our time since Greece. So as a practicing artist, if you will, this is home ground. They love us, so music, literature, art continues to be the center.
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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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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.
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Ideas exist in the marketplace; they are thrown out for everyone to use.
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I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.
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When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.
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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.
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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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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.
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On certain projects, on big public projects, people definitely are interested in making them greener, but on smaller projects with tight budgets it can be harder.
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People are searching for something they don't have in their lives. There's an unfulfilled need.
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Your best work is your expression of yourself.
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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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I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.
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You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.
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We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that.
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The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history.
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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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One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
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Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable.
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