Frank Gehry

Gehry in October 2007

Frank Owen Gehry (born Frank Owen Goldberg; February 28, 1929) is a Canadian-American architect who won the Pritzker Prize in 1989. He is known for his buildings such as 8 Spruce Street, Dancing House, Port Olímpic, Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall. He built buildings across the United States and across South America.

Early life

Gehry was born on February 28, 1929 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to Polish-Jewish parents. He was raised in Los Angeles, California. He stuided at Los Angeles City College and at the University of Southern California. Gehry now lives in Santa Monica, California.

Career

In 1989, Gehry won the Pritzker Prize.

Frank Gehry Media

• 

  Gehry Residence in Santa Monica, California (1978)

• 

  Chiat/Day Building in Venice, California (1991)

• 

  Public housing in Frankfurt-Schwanheim (1994)

• 

  Part of the roof of the Fondation Louis Vuitton building as seen from the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, France (2016)

• 

  New World Center in Miami Beach, Florida (2011)

• 

  The tower at 8 Spruce Street in Lower Manhattan, completed in 2010, has a stainless steel and glass exterior and is 76 stories high (2010).

• 

  The Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health of the Cleveland Clinic in Las Vegas, Nevada (2010)

• 

  The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain

• 

  wiggle side chair designed by Frank o. Gehry

• 

  Frank O. Gehry - Parc des Ateliers

Other websites

• Gehry Partners, LLP Archived 2013-12-19 at the Wayback Machine, Gehry's architecture firm
• Gehry Technologies, Inc., Gehry's technology firm
• Profile Archived 2006-06-28 at the Wayback Machine at the Pritzker Prize
• Fish Forms: Lamps by Frank Gehry Exhibition (2010) Archived 2013-04-15 at Archive.today at The Jewish Museum (New York)
• STORIES OF HOUSES: Frank Gehry's House in California
• Bidding for the National Art Museum of China’s new site