What are the driving forces of innovation at Frank O. Gehry & Associates?
1. Having a stable environment: Gehry built a firm in which everyone got paid on time and that didn t borrow money this wasn t considered chic by the architectural community.Strong financial management by Gehry s wife offers stability within the company, and Gehry finds this comforting; stability is also an important factor when it comes to attracting talented young architects. Gehry observes, “When you’re starting out, you can’t get a team because you look so crazy, and you do work over and over again when you’re younger, when you’re fussing around trying to figure out who you are. And so people that have kids and stuff like that don’t stay with you because you seem too unstable.”Gehry leaves the office at 6pm and never works on weekends. 2. Collaboration: Gehry in his quest to push the boundaries of architecture as an art form says, “We are finding ways of working together, artists and architects, architects and architects, clients and architects. The dream is that each brick, each w
