Geburtsdatum | Donnerstag, 28. Februar 1929 |
Geburtsort | Toronto, Canada |
Sternzeichen | |
Beschreibung | Frank Owen Gehry, CC, FAIA (/ˈɡɛəri/; geb. Goldberg; geboren am 28. Februar 1929) ist ein in Kanada geborener amerikanischer Architekt und Designer. Eine Reihe seiner Gebäude, darunter sein Privathaus in Santa Monica, Kalifornien, sind zu weltbekannten Sehenswürdigkeiten geworden. Seine Werke zählen laut der World Architecture Survey 2010 zu den bedeutendsten der zeitgenössischen Architektur, weshalb ihn das Magazin Vanity Fair als „den wichtigsten Architekten unserer Zeit” bezeichnet. Er ist auch der Designer des National Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial. |
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
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.
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.
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.
