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Frank O. Gehry

Architect; winner of the 1989 Pritzker Prize

Canada · 1929–2025

Canadian and American architect whose buildings include the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Won the Pritzker Prize in 1989.

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Question Which writers or artists most influenced your work? Taste & recommendation read 39 other answers →

I spent time with Rauschenberg a lot during the combine period. I think just around the combine period. He had a big influence on me because he was very free and not full of philosophy and why I’m doing this and that. Some of the artists had this anchor of having to be — relate sometimes to Hegel and Kant and Nietzsche. It was sort of baggage that they brought to the table that was irrelevant. I mean it was in their head and it was relevant, but it was irrelevant to this moment of truth. So I found the artists that were kind of “dumb smart,” that were really smart but didn’t parade it, that were willing to take the risks and stuff.

Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, Los Angeles, California, 27 September 2016 source ↗

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