Frank Gehry Quotes
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I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.
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I was in Peru and visited a building near Lima built by the Incas. It was low in height, with no windows at all, but all the way in the back there was air movement. And I couldn't figure out how they'd done it; it was incredible.
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Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.
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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.
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One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
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I'm a leftie, and I've always believed in doing things on a modest scale.
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An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
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I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not.
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Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.
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The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.
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My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.
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This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off.
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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.
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There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes.