"Over the course of his eight-decade career, Gehry altered the look of modern cities with his ebulliently sculptural public buildings, becoming one of the best known and most acclaimed American architects of the twentieth century. Structures like the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, in Spain, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall, in Los Angeles, are among the most widely recognized in the world, placing him in a pantheon alongside such figures as Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and I. M. Pei."
"Frank Gehry was born Frank Owen Goldberg on February 28, 1929, in a working-class section of Toronto, to Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. As a child, encouraged in his natural creativity by his maternal grandmother, he constructed cities from cast-off scraps of wood obtained from his maternal grandfather's hardware store. The humble items sold there would profoundly influence his practice, which early on was characterized by the use of such mundane materials as corrugated steel, chain-link fence, and plywood."
Frank Gehry died at his Santa Monica home on December 5 after a brief respiratory illness. He was born Frank Owen Goldberg on February 28, 1929, in Toronto to Jewish immigrants and nurtured creative instincts building cities from scraps in his grandfather's hardware store. The humble materials of his youth influenced early work that embraced corrugated steel, chain-link fence, and plywood. The family moved to California in 1947; he graduated from the University of Southern California's School of Architecture in 1954 and later opened his own office in 1962. His eight-decade career transformed modern cities with iconic sculptural buildings.
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