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There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.
Frank Gehry
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Frank Gehry
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: February 28
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The present is filled with flotsam and irony and chaos and disorder in all arenas, political and sociological. I think we have to work in the present even if it's awkward, even if it's not necessarily good, even if we don't understand it ourselves. You only find out 10, maybe 20 years later what was going on.
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People are searching for something they don't have in their lives. There's an unfulfilled need.
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