There are people who design buildings that are not... -Frank Gehry

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

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

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