Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Everything - design and technology and materials - has changed since the World Trade Center was built. A lot of it has… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories -… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
You have to do every detail on every bloody piece of the building. You have to know how the engineering works. You… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
When people condemn me for designing iconic buildings in cities and not having an idea what a city is, they haven't done… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
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… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
You never build the perfect building. Only Allah is perfect. Life is such. You make decisions on conclusions, then some guy invents… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You… — Frank Gehry Copy Share
In Tokyo, London or Los Angeles people go into McDonald's and the restaurants are identical and people are comfortable. It's unthreatening. — Frank Gehry Copy Share
I'm inspired by a lot of stuff. I always was interested in sculpture and painting and music and literature and all those things. There's… — Frank Gehry Copy Share
People live and work in uninspiring environments, but look inside those rooms. Look at the painted walls and the decorations. People rebel even in… — Frank Gehry Copy Share
Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction. — Frank Gehry Copy Share
Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless. — Frank Gehry Copy Share
There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that… — Frank Gehry Copy Share
I used to read more when I was a kid than I do now. It was all sort of fuel for the fire to… — Frank Gehry Copy Share
I found myself starting architecture with a deep social, Jewish, liberal conscience, and the belief that architecture is for the people. It was a… — Frank Gehry Copy Share
The whole can be greater than the sum of it's parts, that we all have something to put in the pie to make it… — Frank Gehry Copy Share
I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious,… — Frank Gehry Copy Share
Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got… — Frank Gehry Copy Share
