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I didn't have any interest in doing rich people's homes. I still don't.
Frank Gehry
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Frank Gehry
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: February 28
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There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.
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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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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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I love working. I don't know what the word vacation means.
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People say, This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me. Then when somebody does something different, real architecture, the push-back is amazing. People resist it. At first it's new and scary.
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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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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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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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My father always told me that I was going to be a failure - I think he was more talking about himself, but I didn't know it at the time.
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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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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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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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People live and work in uninspiring environments, but look inside those rooms. Look at the painted walls and the decorations. People rebel even in the most controlled office environment in which they're not allowed to do anything. You see the little bulletin board in front of a person's desk with their photos, clippings, cartoons and whatever else.
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The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.
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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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The safety requirements, which are necessary, spread everything out and push people farther and farther away from the stage and from each other.
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There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.
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In an ideal world, pressure should come from below and from the top.
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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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