Frank Gehry Quotes

Canada, Architect
February 28, 1929

Frank Owen Gehry, CC, FAIA (/ˈɡɛəri/; born Frank Owen Goldberg; February 28, 1929) is a Canadian-born American architect, residing in Los Angeles. A number of his buildings, including his private residence, have become world-renowned attractions. His works are cited as being among the most important works of contemporary architecture in the 2010 World Architecture Survey, which led Vanity Fair to label him as "the most important architect of our age".

This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off.

Frank Gehry
- Home
- Weird
- Cold
I do think democracy has produced chaos, especially visual. A lot of people don't like it and yearn for nineteenth-century images, forgetting that the politics of those images were different than the democracy we love.

Frank Gehry

I'm a leftie, and I've always believed in doing things on a modest scale.

Frank Gehry
One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Frank Gehry
- Italian
I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.

Frank Gehry
- City
Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.

Frank Gehry
- Green
- Marketing
When I went to Harvard and studied planning, I found I didn't have the skills or the strength to become the kind of public person who could go out and lobby government agencies.

Frank Gehry
- Planning
The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

Frank Gehry
- Advice

On certain projects, on big public projects, people definitely are interested in making them greener, but on smaller projects with tight budgets it can be harder.

Frank Gehry
- People
Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

Frank Gehry
- Architecture
- Chicago
An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

Frank Gehry
- People
- Art
I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not.

Frank Gehry
- Green
My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.

Frank Gehry
- Father
- Creativity
There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes.

Frank Gehry
- Done

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

Frank Gehry
- Hope
- Positive