“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”
Zdroj: Kim Johnson Gross, Jeff Stone, Julie V. Iovine (1993) Home. p. 43.
Frank O. Gehry alebo Frank Owen Gehry rodený Frank Goldberg je americký architekt, víťaz Pritzkerovej ceny, známy ako jeden z autorov Tancujúceho domu. Od roku 1947 žije v Los Angeles, kde sa prisťahoval s rodinou.
V roku 1951 absolvoval štúdium architektúry na University of Southern California, potom stáž u architekta Victora Gruena v Los Angeles. V rokoch 1956/57 študoval urbanizmus na Graduate School of Design Harvardovej univerzity, 1957/58 spoločná prax s architektami Pereirom a Luckmanom v Los Angeles, v roku 1961 prax s architektom André Remondetom v Paríži.
V roku 1962 založil firmu Frank O. Gehry Associates v Los Angeles.
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“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”
Zdroj: Kim Johnson Gross, Jeff Stone, Julie V. Iovine (1993) Home. p. 43.
“Life is chaotic, dangerous, and surprising. Buildings should reflect that.”
Zdroj: Jason K. Miller, Susan Lauzau (2002) Frank Gehry. p. 6.
Barbara Isenberg (2012) Conversations with Frank Gehry. p. 268.
Helen D. Hume (2010) The Art Teacher's Book of Lists. p. 304.
“[ Brancusi ] has had more influence on my work than most architects.”
Frank Gehry in: Caroline Evensen Lazo (2005) Frank Gehry. p. 43.
Zdroj: Blueprint. Nr. 90-92, 1992.
Zdroj: Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Frank Gehry, The City and Music (2002)
Zdroj: The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1989.