image from exhibition "Never Shown Tower Fragments", MAK Vienna
In the Swedish Newspaper The Local, Rahel Belatchew Lerdell – a Stockholm based architect has quoted Frank Gehry:
(Sweden is) a country that will never create architecture of any significance. You have a society in which nothing can be built to stick out. (http://www.thelocal.se/8939/)Some days later Gehry apologized for that.
It’s kind of like Canada now, there seems not to be a constituency for new architecture like there is in Europe and the U.S. [..]There is more of a community identity rather than an individual identity. I was raised on that and share in that. But it does raise the question - can architecture evolve out of that? [..]Weird thoughts indeed. Accordingly to Gehry good architecture can only evolve in a society that favours the individual genius. Maybe we can exist without significant architecture and make architecture more community-driven?
(http://www.thelocal.se/8988/20071102/)
via Baunetz
By the way - see two other "larger than life" architects (Eisenman and Prix) on google-video (via apeiron).