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" There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling. "
Frank Gehry
Buildings
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that. "
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" I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull. "
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" Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I work from the inside out. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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 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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Loud
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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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" I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them. "
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Decide
Someone
" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what he wants, and it creates a collision of thinking. In cities, that means people build whatever they want. "
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" One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. "
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" I'm a leftie, and I've always believed in doing things on a modest scale. "
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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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" 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 never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not. "
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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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