- Nov 07, 2020
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- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work from the inside out.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Buildings
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- Nov 07, 2020
My buildings are all on budget.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Plan
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.
- Finished Product
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to Harvard and studied planning, I found I didn't have the skills or the strength to become the kind of public person who could go out and lobby government agencies.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.
- Meaningless
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- Nov 07, 2020
Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.
- Greener
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Building
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself.
- Be Yourself
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Dry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Insecurity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Compels
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- Nov 07, 2020