Hugh Hardy Quotes

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

Frank Gehry designs buildings that make other architects half his age (he's 78) gasp with envy. Neotony is what makes him lace up his skates and whirl around the ice rink, while visionary buildings come to life and dance in his head.

The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.

Nowadays I think it's really important that designers are really unique and individual.

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

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance.

I love everything that Frank Gehry does. I wish I could have that man build me a Wayne Manor-style mansion, like his idea of it.

I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.

When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one."

It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.

The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man. One must eat, one must have shelter. Next to religious worship itself, it is the spiritual handmaiden of our deepest convictions.

in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it.

Architecture falls between art and airports. It's pragmatic-it helps you get from point A to point B. But it also works as art. It makes you think twice. It inspires you. It brings you back to yourself.

The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.

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

Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.

I don't make clothes for the critics.

I've always felt like a designer of lifestyle that has a certain spirit and bohemian quality.

The first wedding dress I ever made was for myself. It was at a time when I had my business up and running, but it was still very early days, and I thought, 'This is my moment to do whatever I like.'

Unless a design is infused with a personality - and by that, I mean mine or someone else who really understands what design is all about - it will never, ever have any mystery.

I just kind of, like, put stuff together. I don't really try to make it seem like a 'look.'

My approach is simple. It is nothing other than what I am thinking at the time I make each piece of clothing, whether I think it is strong and beautiful. The result is something that other people decide.

Architecture was, or is, a kind of hobby, an inclination I have to fiddling around and building things. Putting up shelves or cupboards, or making tools, or designing houses ... it always has a functional or social motivation. If social changes are in the air, I am gripped immediately by the desire to build, and I think that I accelerate or anticipate changes in my life by doing so, at least in draft. In the case of my house, that was anticipation: in other words, first build, then change one's life.

The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.