Frank Gehry
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180 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 12 Dec
Frank Gehry’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I came into architecture at the height of modernism.
After the war, decoration was a sin.
Purity, functionalism...
All of that stuff.
Right, and it became very cold and inhuman and lifeless.
Probably some people yearned for bringing decoration back, and they tried it for a while.
I went a different route.
I thought it was possible...
within the aesthetics of the day to find a way to express feeling and humanistic qualities in a building.
And I got interested in movement, the sense of movement having a humanistic effect on an inert building.
And there are examples in history of that.
I've alluded, I've talked about it before.
The Shiva dancing figures from India, that a multi-armed...
dancer in bronze.
And the best ones, when you look at them and turn away and look back, you're sure they moved.
I was fascinated with that sense of movement.
And since our culture, when I started making my work, was a moving environment, planes, trains, cars, whatever,
I talked about it and I thought about it, but I wasn't clear about it until I started experimenting quite accidentally with fish forms.
I was interested in movement, and I loved the drawings of Hiroshige and the Japanese woodcuts of carp.
And I loved the quality of them, and I always thought they were very architectural.
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