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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. "
Frank Gehry
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" Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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, by the time we got to L.A., they'd lost whatever they had. And it was a sad time. And both he and I became truck drivers for different companies. "
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" Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. "
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" A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books. "
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" I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant. "
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" I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes. "
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" I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope. "
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" 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. "
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" There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling. "
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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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" I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80. "
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" Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff. "
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" If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it. "
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" I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture. "
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" The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that. "
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" 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 Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture. "
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" 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. "
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" I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form. "
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" I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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