Zitat des Tages von Frank Gehry:
Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.
When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.
I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You start to get the scale of it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for.
This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off.
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.
And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.
I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.
My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself.
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.
I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.
Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work because of Bilbao.
There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.
For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.
You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.
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.
Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.
A lot of people don't get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow. I think it's important to create spaces that people like to be in, that are humanistic.
I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.
Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.
Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.
I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80.
I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.
One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
The game is if the orchestra can hear each other, they play better. If they play better and there's a tangible feeling between the orchestra and the audience, if they feel each other, the audience responds and the orchestra feels it.
The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.
Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings.
I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes.
