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I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.
Frank Gehry
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Frank Gehry
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: February 28
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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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Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.
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