Frank Gehry Quotes About Design

Quotes about: Design

• Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

  Frank Gehry

  Badass, Bad Ass, Talking

  "Home". Book by Kim Johnson Gross, Jeff Stone, and Julie V. Iovine, p. 43, 1993.

• Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

  Frank Gehry

  Expression, Design, Experts

• You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

  Frank Gehry

  Life, Success, Famous Inspirational

• There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.

  Frank Gehry

  Simple, Two, People

• Everything - design and technology and materials - has changed since the World Trade Center was built. A lot of it has to do with computers, which allow us to be far more efficient as well as structurally sound.

  Frank Gehry

  Technology, Design, Sound

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

• 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.

  Frank Gehry

  School, Cities, Ideas

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

• Generally people are more impressed with the services and the comfort issues than the design.

  Frank Gehry

  Issues, People, Design

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

• I'm going to design the container and interior spaces. You bring your own stuff to it and make it your own.

  Frank Gehry

  Space, Design, Stuff

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

• One of my unsung heroes is Erich Mendelsohn. I met him when I was a student and he was a cranky old man and very unpleasant. But if you go to his Einstein Tower in Potsdam, Germany you see an enormous intellect at work with a language that was personal and new. It has a sense of urban design and of theater and procession I hadn't seen before.

  Frank Gehry

  Hero, Men, Design

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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