Meet Frank Owen Gehry
Frank Gehry is a Canadian architect and designer residing in Los Angeles. Gehry was born in Canada in 1929; attended Southern California university and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He began his career in Los Angeles, working for Victor Gruen Associates and Pereira and Luckman.
Several of Frank Gehry’s buildings, including his private residence, have become world-renowned attractions. The award-winning architect has spent more than a half-century disrupting the very meaning of design within architecture.
Iconic buildings
From the iconic Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (which Philip Johnson called “the greatest building of our time”) to the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, Gehry has proven time, and again the force produced when a whimsical design is done masterfully.
Frank Gehry’s work around the world
Some of other Frank Gehry’s greatest works include Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles; Hotel Marqués de Riscal in Rioja in Spain, the Vontz Center for Molecular Studies on the University of Cincinnati campus; Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle; New World Center in Miami Beach; Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis; Dancing House in Prague; the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto; the Cinémathèque Française in Paris; and 8 Spruce Street in New York City.
