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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
Architect
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City of Toronto
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We deny our nature to build and create and then wonder why there is so much alienation and dissatisfaction.
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If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.
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The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.
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I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.
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Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.
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As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.
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