When I start my class I ask the students to write their signatures on pieces of paper and put them on a table. I have them look at them, and I point out, "They're all different, aren't they? That's you, that's you, that's you, that's you."
Frank GehryAnd 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.
Frank GehryI do my best to choose carefully. If I donโt feel that collaboration is going to happen, I say no. Think about it. These projects can involve a five-to-seven-year partnership. If you donโt feel comfortable with someone, you canโt get rid of them. I just walked away from a job for that reason. Every one of these projects is an emotional investment, like falling in love. Youโve got to believe in it and youโve got to like the people you work with.
Frank GehryCardboard is another material that's ubiquitous and everybody hates, yet when I made furniture with it everybody loved it.
Frank GehryOne of my unsung heroes is Erich Mendelsohn. I met him when I was a student and he was a cranky old man and very unpleasant. But if you go to his Einstein Tower in Potsdam, Germany you see an enormous intellect at work with a language that was personal and new. It has a sense of urban design and of theater and procession I hadn't seen before.
Frank Gehry