Frank Gehry "Chicago, in my humble opinion is, architecturally, the best American city, traditionally and just visually. Its so exciting. And it continues to be. It still has some kind of beautiful physicality that is inherent somehow in the lake and the river and the old buildings as they stand. Just coincidentally, when I was a kid, my father used to take me to Chicago from Toronto. So I have a fondness for Chicago, because thats one of the things I remember doing with my father."