Frank Gehry Quotes

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

The future of architecture is culture.

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

Architecture is a political art connecting our values to the ages.

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.

Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally.

Building design isn't trendy.

For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.

I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.

Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history.

I just want to build the best buildings. It's not about me, it's about the buildings, creating a space where society can gather and marvel in beauty and nature.

Although we're architects, we believe we do culture; architecture is culture, and the topics we tackle will always arise a broader debate.

I think architects have a major role in being responsible for illustrating what the future could be. Because of the very strong political and commercial climate, many architects are trying very hard to solve everyday issues, to respond to the authorities.

Architecture remains a passion and a subject I'm very interested in. I learned a great deal from studying it and working in it.

Since the Beijing Olympics in 2008, our office has been discussing how we can make architecture more human and at one with nature. We need to ask ourselves, what legacy do we want to leave behind on humankind's urban culture?

It's most satisfying to have an effect on the public realm - deep down I think it's what every architect wants to do.

I think architecture has to be a gift.

As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

I love architecture.

Architecture is invention.

I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.