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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. "

Frank Gehry

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Frank Gehry

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" I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns. "

" 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. "

" 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 know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant. "

" There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple. "

" 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 refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes. "

" I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them. "

" 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. "

" I was in Peru and visited a building near Lima built by the Incas. It was low in height, with no windows at all, but all the way in the back there was air movement. And I couldn't figure out how they'd done it; it was incredible. "

" 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. "

" My buildings are all on budget. "

Frank Gehry

Buildings

Budget

" 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. "

" Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless. "

" 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. "

" I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope. "

Frank Gehry

Building

Positive

" I'm a leftie, and I've always believed in doing things on a modest scale. "

" This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off. "

Frank Gehry

Home

Weird

" I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not. "

" 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. "

" You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it. "

" 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. "

Frank Gehry

Fact

Searching

" I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture. "

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

" 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. "

Frank Gehry

You

Understand

" 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. "