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I found myself starting architecture with a deep social, Jewish, liberal conscience, and the belief that architecture is for the people. It was a do-gooder base I was born and raised that way. I was for blacks, whites, Italians, Poles, whatever.

Frank Gehry

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Frank Gehry
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: February 28
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