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Frank Gehry
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: February 28
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City of Toronto
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Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.
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Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction.
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Some cultures tried to stop people from expressing themselves. In Mao's China, for example, the Communists tried to stop individual expression. For them the payoff was a society of equality. The problem of course is that it didn't work.
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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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I don't know whose box I'm in, and I don't really care.
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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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Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.
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We're physiologically wired differently.
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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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It should begin much earlier with arts education in the American school system, which is sadly deficient.
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We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that.
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Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.
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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.
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We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable. People say, This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me.
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Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.
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I love working. I don't know what the word vacation means.
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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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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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There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.
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Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.
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