Frank Gehry
speaker
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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And it still had that quality of movement when you looked back and looked around.
And I made that out of a wooden frame and covered it with metal.
And so that was the beginning of a language.
And I took that language into the buildings.
Okay, here's how you do it.
I do maybe 50 models.
They look, sometimes they look like crumpled paper, so people think I crumple up paper and that's how they get there.
And I analyze the shapes as though they're structures with the computer to determine whether I'm within the budgetary constraints.
And over time, I slowly evolve these shapes and refine them.
And then you've got to decide what skin to put on it, the exterior surface.
A long time ago, you know, buildings are a wall and a roof, right?
Mm-hmm.
And usually the wall is a different material than the roof.
And I wanted, a long time ago, tried to make the buildings into one shape.
I thought if I could make it one piece, that I would have a lot of flexibility.
So I...
Metal roofing is tradition for centuries.
And there's a tradition, and there's a detailing tradition, and there's a performance tradition so that you can rely on it not to leak, not to get you in trouble if you follow the rules of it.
I started making the whole building.
I started to take the roofing material down and make the walls part of the roofing material.
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