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Frank Gehry
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: February 28
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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.I'm not dismissing it.
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In Tokyo, London or Los Angeles people go into McDonald's and the restaurants are identical and people are comfortable. It's unthreatening.
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Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.
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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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My father was an urchin that lived in Hell's Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there were times that were better and worse, but mostly, by the time we got to L.A., they'd lost whatever they had. And it was a sad time. And both he and I became truck drivers for different companies.
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Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries.
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I don't micromanage the interiors. People ask me to and I say no. I don't want to control everything.
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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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One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
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When people condemn me for designing iconic buildings in cities and not having an idea what a city is, they haven't done their homework. I started in urban design and city planning. It's just that when I got out of school there wasn't much of a market for that. There still isn't.
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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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Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable.
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I don't know whose box I'm in, and I don't really care.
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If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility. It's not fluff. You have to do every detail on every bloody piece of the building. You have to know how the engineering works. You have to know how the fittings go together. You have to master the mechanical, electrical, acoustical - everything.
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That's what you have to find in architecture. You have to find your signature. When you find it, you're the only expert on it. People can say they like it or don't like it. They can argue about it, but it's yours.
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I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.
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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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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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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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Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.
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