Pharrell Williams Quotes

Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry.

You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature.

If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are inspirational.

I think a lot of people have the Frank Lloyd Wright model in their brains. The architect comes in with this act of creation and lays it down, and that's it. But that's not me.

Against expectations I was charmed by Gehry's Edgemar development, which housed the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and positively awed by the Bilbao Guggenheim. That Gehry is a great artist I have no doubt, but talent and determination are no warrant against confusion, nor are they a guaranty to produce great art.

I live in a loft in a building I designed, but for my dream house I'd get Frank Gehry, just to see what he'd do.

It's going to sound strange probably. But I really like Frank Gehry's works.

A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque narrative that captivated many who hadn't the slightest inkling of what architects actually did.

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.

In the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright - and you can also see it with Mies - they make new ground by raising the ground. Frank Lloyd Wright did it so beautifully with the Robie House. The roof becomes almost a new ground.

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.

I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel.

The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it.

I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.

The Eisenhower Memorial competition and project have stirred a remarkable polemic, the center of which is not President Eisenhower or Washington, D.C. but Mr. Gehry and the values he promulgates.

The role of the architect as artist is an ancient one, but it was de-emphasized with the rise of modernism, which rejected the drawing-based Beaux-Arts tradition in favor of a more technocratic approach.

My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.

As an architect, you have to provide a shelter to enjoy art. And you have to love art. It's like when you make a concert hall. You must love music. This is the reason why you make the space, to enjoy music - making a space for art is the same thing.

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

I'm well into sort of Santiago Calatrava and people like that.

Frank Gehry not only understood my sense of fun and adventure but also reciprocated it and translated that feeling into his work.

New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.

I did not want to do stereotypical buildings.

Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me.