I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.
From Frank Gehry
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.
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.
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.
There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes.
I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.
There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.
I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.
I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not.
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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