Frank Gehry Men Quotations

One particular image of an Edwardian woman captured my imagination, ... The movement of the dress as she promenaded along the seafront provided the inspiration for the historical references and sculptured forms in the design.

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.

One of my unsung heroes is Erich Mendelsohn. I met him when I was a student and he was a cranky old man and very unpleasant. But if you go to his Einstein Tower in Potsdam, Germany you see an enormous intellect at work with a language that was personal and new. It has a sense of urban design and of theater and procession I hadn't seen before.

There is an order to our environment, a broader order.

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

I attended a lecture by a gray-haired old man from Finland, who later I discovered was the architect Alvar Aalto. I was very moved. I wasn't interested in architecture, but it was a moving thing I've never forgotten.

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.

There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.