When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.

I tried chemical engineering which I wasn't very good at and didn't like and then I remembered.

Gehry's best-known works include the titanium-covered Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao Spain; MIT Ray and Maria Stata Center in Cambridge Massachusetts; Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles; Experience Music Project in Seattle; Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis; Dancing House in Prague; the Vitra Design Museum and MARTa Museum in Germany; the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto; the Cinémathèque française in Paris; and 8 Spruce Street in New York City. Eisenhower Memorial. His works are cited as being among the most important works of contemporary architecture in the 2010 World Architecture Survey which led Vanity Fair to label him as "the most important architect of our age".