220 Quotes by Frank Gehry

The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.

Everything - design and technology and materials - has changed since the World Trade Center was built. A lot of it has to do with computers, which allow us to be far more efficient as well as structurally sound.

You have to do every detail on every bloody piece of the building. You have to know how the engineering works. You have to know how the fittings go together. You have to master the mechanical, electrical, acoustical - everything.

Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.

Generally in our world, whether in architecture or almost anywhere else, we devalue the artist, and schools at whatever level shut people down.

I'm preprogrammed emotionally and intellectually not to go down blind alleys. I don't waste the time. I automatically edit out whatever's impractical.

That's why you go into architecture - at least I did - to do things for people. I think most of us are idealists. You start out that way, anyway.

In Tokyo, London or Los Angeles people go into McDonald's and the restaurants are identical and people are comfortable. It's unthreatening.

We deny our nature to build and create and then wonder why there is so much alienation and dissatisfaction.