Frank O. Gehry: Building the Inspiring Space

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🗓️ 24 October 2016

⏱️ 44 minutes

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If you can name one living architect, it's probably Frank Gehry. Gehry has designed some of the world's most recognizable and beloved buildings... buildings that are surprising and playful, like the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. In this episode, Gehry talks about what compelled him to put the art back in architecture. He explains his obsession with fish and motion and curvilinear forms. And he remembers the professor who told him he'd never make it in architecture. (c ) American Academy of Achievement 2016

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0:00.0	How do you know when you've truly arrived?
0:03.7	Maybe it's when you've won a string of prestigious awards.
0:08.5	Maybe it's when you're one of the only household names in your field, but certainly it's when you've been asked to make
0:16.4	a guest appearance on The Simpsons.
0:19.4	We ask Frank Gary to build us a concert hall.
0:22.4	Behold, the new Springfield concert hall.
0:27.0	And none of this would have happened if not for a letter I received from one little girl.
0:33.0	I wrote that letter.
0:34.0	You wrote, I was the bestest architect in the world?
0:38.0	Aren't you?
0:39.0	All in favor of building a $30 million screw you to Shelbyville?
0:43.0	If you've never seen that episode of The Simpsons, it's a must.
0:48.0	Some rude boys of Springfield skateboard across the bodacious titanium curves and swoops of the new Frank-Garry concert hall.
0:58.0	Get off my masterpiece, you punks. I'll call your mothers.
1:02.0	Yo Frank Gary, like curvy linear forms much?
1:06.0	Ah!
1:08.0	Frank Gehry, the architect and designer who has altered the landscape of cities throughout the world actually
1:14.9	played himself in that episode and he's the subject of this episode of what
1:20.4	it takes a podcast about passion, vision, and perseverance from the Academy of Achievement.
1:27.0	I'm Alice Winkler.
1:29.0	Academy, this child is gifted and I heard that enough that I started to believe it.
1:37.8	If you have the opportunity, not a perfect opportunity and you don't take it you may never have another job.
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