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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. "
Frank Gehry
Want
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Cold
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" Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible. "
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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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" 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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" The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works. "
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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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" I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80. "
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" One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. "
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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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" The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that. "
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" Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. "
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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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" I'm a leftie, and I've always believed in doing things on a modest scale. "
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" Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore. "
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" I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them. "
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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 used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much. "
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