Frank Gehry Quotes About Architecture

Quotes about: Architecture

• I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

  Frank Gehry

  Badass, Bad Ass, People

• 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.

• Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.

  Frank Gehry

  Men, Somewhere Else, Architecture

• Architecture
  is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it,
  we believe in its potential to make a difference, to enlighten and to enrich the
  human experience, to penetrate the barriers of misunderstandin g and provide a
  beautiful context for life's drama.

  Frank Gehry

  Beautiful, Drama, Believe

  Casey C. M. Mathewson, Frank O. Gehry (2007). “Frank O. Gehry: Selected Works : 1969 to Today”, Firefly Books Limited

• 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

  People, Way, Belief

  "New Again: Frank Gehry". Interview with Angela Ledgerwood and Ross Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 19, 2012.

• Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. "The client made me do this." "The city made me do this." "Oh, the budget." I don't believe that anymore.

  Frank Gehry

  Believe, Cities, Looks

  Interview with Alex Hoyt, www.theatlantic.com. May 2011.

• 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.

  Frank Gehry

  Thinking, Play, Cities

• I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect, and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity, and inequality, even passion and opportunity.

  Frank Gehry

  Passion, Opportunity, Trying

  Casey C. M. Mathewson, Frank O. Gehry (2007). “Frank O. Gehry: Selected Works : 1969 to Today”, Firefly Books Limited

• Art is about people. I think the discussion about whether architecture is art or not is lamebrain.

  Frank Gehry

  Art, Thinking, People

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

• Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

  Frank Gehry

  Art, Children, Doe

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

• Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

  Frank Gehry

  Chicago, Architecture, Visible

• Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

  Frank Gehry

  Vacation, People, Generations

• In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.

  Frank Gehry

  Artist, Renaissance, Architecture

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

• I used to read more when I was a kid than I do now. It was all sort of fuel for the fire to teach you how to think and how to make things and it informed the architecture that I was doing. It's better coming in with that history and that kind of knowledge and depth of understanding of humanity that is very important for building buildings - for understanding people and how they should live and how you could make your lives better and stuff like that.

  Frank Gehry

  Kids, Thinking, Fire

  Source: blog.americansforthearts.org

• I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.

  Frank Gehry

  Dry, Dull, Want

  "Frank Gehry: Dizzy heights". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2011.

• The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.

  Frank Gehry

  Saint, Pieces, Architecture

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

• I think the biggest problem with 'industrial' architecture is that it's lost its sense of humanity. Minimalist stuff drains all the humanity out of it. That idea works great for the money thing, but it doesn't work great for the feeling thing.

  Frank Gehry

  Thinking, Feelings, Humanity

  Source: www.designcurial.com

• I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.

  Frank Gehry

  Vacation, Thinking, People

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

• The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.

  Frank Gehry

  Cities, Use, Architecture

  "New Again: Frank Gehry". Interview with Angela Ledgerwood and Ross Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 19, 2012.

• 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.

  Frank Gehry

  People, Signatures, Experts

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

• It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

  Frank Gehry

  Art, Children, Architecture

  Source: amandajbailey.wordpress.com

• Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

  Frank Gehry

  War, Architecture, Environment

  "Looking back at Frank Gehry's building-bending feats". "PBS NewsHour", www.pbs.org. September 11, 2015.

• Generally in our world, whether in architecture or almost anywhere else, we devalue the artist, and schools at whatever level shut people down.

  Frank Gehry

  School, Artist, Our World

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

• You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.

  Frank Gehry

  Ego, Stuff, Architecture

  "Looking back at Frank Gehry’s building-bending feats". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. September 11, 2015.

• I attended a lecture by a gray-haired old man from Finland, who later I discovered was the architect Alvar Aalto. I was very moved. I wasn't interested in architecture, but it was a moving thing I've never forgotten.

  Frank Gehry

  Moving, Men, Lectures

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

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