Frank Gehry Quotes

Frank Gehry is a Canadian-American architect, known for his innovative and groundbreaking architectural designs, including the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

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.

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.

My father was an urchin that lived in Hell's Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there were times that were better and worse, but mostly, by the time we got to L.A., they'd lost whatever they had. And it was a sad time. And both he and I became truck drivers for different companies.

A lot of people don't get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow. I think it's important to create spaces that people like to be in, that are humanistic.

I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dul... -Frank Gehry

I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.

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This quote expresses the speaker's desire to avoid creating architecture that lacks creativity, excitement, or originality. It implies a preference for designs that are engaging, inspiring, and imaginative, rather than mundane or uninspiring.

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.

I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings.

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.

I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You start to get the scale of it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for.

Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

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.

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.

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.

There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

Chicago's one of the rare places where architectur... -Frank Gehry

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

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This quote highlights Chicago as a city where architecture is prominent and easily noticeable. It implies that the city's architecture stands out and plays a significant role in shaping its identity and visual landscape.

There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.

Frank Gehry Quotes

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