Charles Gwathmey Quotes

United States, Architect
June 19, 1938 – August, 3, 2009.

Charles Gwathmey (June 19, 1938 – August 3, 2009) was an American architect. He was a principal at Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, as well as one of the five architects identified as The New York Five in 1969. One of Gwathmey's most famous designs is the 1992 renovation of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum in New York City.

I have always been interested in fashion as an informing design discipline: proportion structure, detail, materiality, texture, color and quality. With a heightened interest in, and an awareness of the built environment, the 'store' has become a critical, perceptual and psychological component of merchandising as well as imaging. Architecture and fashion are partners.

Charles Gwathmey
You have to be able to wake up in the morning and say, 'I've been true.'

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- Up
- True
- Morning

My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive.

Charles Gwathmey
- Life
- Art
I think constraints are very important. They're positive, because they allow you to work off something.

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- Work
- Important
- Positive