Architecture has always been a very idealistic pro... -Frank Gehry

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.

Frank Gehry , Architect
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Frank Gehry is a Canadian-American architect, known for his innovative and groundbreaking architectural designs, including the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

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There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple....
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...
My father was an urchin that lived in Hell's Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there were times that were better and worse, but mostly...
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....
I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope....
I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the S...
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 i...
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 b...
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...
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 h...

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We work with the Mexican authorities. We have our own intelligence architecture. And we are aware of the involvement of smuggling organizations in irr...
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I studied Russian history at school, and I absolutely loved St Petersburg. It was magnificent - the architecture is incredible and has quite a signifi...
I was in school for architecture and when you're in school for a creative discipline, so much of what you produce comes out of inspiration from other ...
I got addicted to the hands-on problem-solving through the process of making or designing something. Architecture school was really influential and am...
I've always been a good student, made good enough grades to do well, and enjoyed a lot of different subjects. It wasn't until I went to architecture s...
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This is a look, a part of Australia we don't see. The wide streets, the architecture, the embassies, the space. It's really beautiful and there's a fe...