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Frank Gehry
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: February 28
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City of Toronto
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It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it.
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Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction. Everybody’s an artist. Unfortunately we don’t treat them as such.
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Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.
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You never build the perfect building. Only Allah is perfect. Life is such. You make decisions on conclusions, then some guy invents something else and the world changes. That's comforting. There's no one way to use museums, no one way to do art. That also means there is no one way to build museums.
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Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.
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Art is about people. I think the discussion about whether architecture is art or not is lamebrain.
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In an ideal world, pressure should come from below and from the top.
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My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.
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Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable.
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We don't see the banality, but we accept banality. We accept it as inevitable, and it's not.
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I'm going to design the container and interior spaces. You bring your own stuff to it and make it your own.
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For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.
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There is an order to our environment, a broader order.
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A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.
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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.
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You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future.
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The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works.
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People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same.
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Erich Mendelsohn's drawings are expressive and beautiful. If he'd had the computers we have now, everything I've done he would have done before me. I would have had to figure out something else.
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I didn't have any interest in doing rich people's homes. I still don't.
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