Quote

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Frank Gehry

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Frank Gehry
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: February 28
Architect
Designer
Furniture Designer
Sculptor
City of Toronto
Frank Owen Gehry
Frank O. Gehry
Ephraim Owen Goldberg
Frank Goldberg
Frank Owen Goldberg
Speak
Place
Timelessness
Time
Yearn
Badass
Architect
Architecture
Design
Talking

More quotes by Frank Gehry

Image
The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.
Frank Gehry
Image
People live and work in uninspiring environments, but look inside those rooms. Look at the painted walls and the decorations. People rebel even in the most controlled office environment in which they're not allowed to do anything. You see the little bulletin board in front of a person's desk with their photos, clippings, cartoons and whatever else.
Frank Gehry
Image
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.
Frank Gehry
Image
I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building.
Frank Gehry
Image
We don't see the banality, but we accept banality. We accept it as inevitable, and it's not.
Frank Gehry
Image
I didn't have any interest in doing rich people's homes. I still don't.
Frank Gehry
Image
If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.
Frank Gehry
Image
The safety requirements, which are necessary, spread everything out and push people farther and farther away from the stage and from each other.
Frank Gehry
Image
Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.
Frank Gehry
Image
Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture... like Van Gogh... so who's to say what's good and bad?
Frank Gehry
Image
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.
Frank Gehry
Image
An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
Frank Gehry
Image
There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.
Frank Gehry
Image
It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it.
Frank Gehry
Image
If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.
Frank Gehry
Image
My father always told me that I was going to be a failure - I think he was more talking about himself, but I didn't know it at the time.
Frank Gehry
Image
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.
Frank Gehry
Image
You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future.
Frank Gehry
Image
China is building cities for a 20 to 40 percent increase in population. India is quickly growing. The carbon footprints of that and other development around the world are overwhelming.
Frank Gehry
Image
Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction.
Frank Gehry