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.
From Frank Gehry
There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.
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.
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.
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.
An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
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.
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.
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.
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