“Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.” — Frank Gehry Quote

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

And 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.

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture.

I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential.

Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.

Architecture is a wrapping for the human body, and dance is the finest expression of the body.