Frank Gehry's Profile
Brief about Frank Gehry: By info that we know Frank Gehry was born at 1929-02-28. And also Frank Gehry is American Architect.
Some Frank Gehry's quotes. Goto "Frank Gehry's quotation" section for more.Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
Tags: Architecture, Place, TimeFor 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: Insecurity, Work, WorkingLook, 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: Behind, City, ExcusesLiquid 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: Happen, Together, WorkAnd 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: Else, Stuff, TimeSome people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.
Tags: May, Though, WorkWhen 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.
Tags: Father, Hope, MotherAn architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
Tags: Art, End, SometimesMost 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: Cold, Since, WarThere is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.
Tags: Done, Everyone, FeelingWell, 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: Head, Looking, WorkI 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.
Tags: Insecurity, Start, WorkingDrawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: 'Open Bar.'
Tags: Feelings, Place, WordsRelated topics
- Timothy Geithner
- Larry Gelbart
- Bob Geldof
- Peaches Geldof
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
- Uri Geller
- Christian Furchtegott Gellert
- Martha Gellhorn
- Ernest Gellner
- David Gemmell