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Frank Gehry
Frank Owen Gehry was a Canadian and American architect and designer known for his postmodern designs and use of unconventional forms and materials. A number of his buildings, including his private residence in Santa Monica, California, have become attractions. His most famous works include the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and the Louis Vuitton Fou…
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culture · Canadian and American architect (1929–2025) · architect · sculptor · furniture designer · designer · jewelry designer · scenographer · musician · author · draftsperson · also Frank Gehry, Frank Owen Gehry, Frank O. Gehry, Ephraim Owen Goldberg, Frank Goldberg, Frank Owen Goldberg
Born 28 February 1929 · Died 5 December 2025 · Q180374
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2026· 27 entries
“But my father thought I was a dreamer, I wasn”
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“t very good at. I tried chemical engineering, which I wasn”
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Ad-hoc-news.de: Biomuseo: Frank Gehry’s colourful biodiversity landmark in Panama-Stadt - Ad-hoc-news.de
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ArchDaily: Galería de El Museo de Filadelfia reabre tras un extenso proyecto de renovación liderado por Frank Gehry - 18
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Clarin.com: Abre en diciembre el nuevo Guggenheim de Frank Gehry, en Abu Dhabi
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ArchDaily: Galería de Bilbao: Frank Gehry asistirá a inicio de obras del puente que llevará su nombre - 3
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ArchDaily: Galería de ¡Feliz Cumpleaños Frank Gehry! - 5
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ArchDaily: Galería de Plataforma en Viaje: Edificio IAC, Frank Gehry - 35
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Arquitectura y Diseño: El Guggenheim Bilbao podría convertirse en una de las 7 Maravillas Contemporáneas del Mundo: el edificio de Frank Gehry que transformó una ciudad
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ArchDaily: Galería de Frank Gehry diseñará ampliación del campus de Colburn en Los Ángeles - 3
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Ad-hoc-news.de: Walt Disney Concert Hall and Frank Gehry’s steel shell - Ad-hoc-news.de
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Building Design: In pictures: the total eclipse at Gehry’s Bilbao Guggenheim
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AD Middle East: Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Opens 11 December 2026: What We Know About the Frank Gehry-Designed Museum
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ArchDaily: Galería de Clásicos de Arquitectura: Walt Disney Concert Hall / Gehry Partners - 15
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Arabian Business: Beyond museums: How Frank Gehry’s Dar Al Funoon will light up Saadiyat Island
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ArchDaily: Galería de Parque Luma / Frank O. Gehry - 15
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ArchDaily: Galería de WSJ entrevista a Frank Gehry sobre su vida, su legado y el río de Los Ángeles - 2
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ArchDaily: Galería de Trazando el legado arquitectónico de Frank Gehry a través de sus obras más influyentes - 9
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ArchDaily: Galería de Clásicos de Arquitectura: Museo Guggenheim Bilbao / Frank Gehry - 9
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ArchDaily: Galería de Esperanza silenciosa: Centro Maggie's Hong Kong de Frank Gehry - 19
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ArchDaily: Galería de En Construcción Noticias: Nuevas Imágenes del Biomuseo de Frank Gehry - 5
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Frank Gehry | Buildings, Architecture, Buildings, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Pritzker Pavilion, Style, & Facts
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ArchDaily: Galería de Cine y Arquitectura: "Sketches of Frank Gehry" - 1
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ArchDaily: Galería de Ciclo de Cine + Arquitectura en Caracas: "Sketches of Frank Gehry" / 27 de Marzo - 1
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ArchDaily: Galería de Las Torres Grand Avenue de Frank Gehry finalmente listas para comenzar su construcción - 3
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ArchDaily: Galería de Frank Gehry ha sido seleccionado para diseñar el área infantil de la Filarmónica de Los Ángeles - 1
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2025· 1 entry
Died 2025-12-05.
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2021· 2 entries
The Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills held Spinning Tales, an exhibition of new fish sculptures by Gehry
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Noting Gehry's progress on an increasing number of significant projects in his hometown, including the Grand Avenue Project, a concert hall for the Youth Orchestra Los Angeles, and an office building for Warner Bros
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2020· 1 entry
Gehry designed a limited edition bottle of Hennessy cognac
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2016· 1 entry
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Barack Obama (2016).
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2015· 3 entries
And was performed, among other places, in Los Angeles and Philadelphia, where it was presented by FringeArts, which commissioned the revival
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Gehry designed his first yacht
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Unveiled his design, for which he waived his design fee, for the Children's Institute in Watts, an LA-based social services organization that provides services to families who have experienced violence and poverty
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2014· 8 entries
Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts (2014).
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Gehry Technologies was acquired by software company Trimble Navigation
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Gehry co-founded Turnaround Arts: California, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that expands access to the arts in under-resourced public elementary and middle schools across California
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As the designer of the World Trade Center Performing Arts Center in New York City
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Two significant, long-awaited museums designed by Gehry opened: the Biomuseo, a biodiversity museum in Panama City, Panama; and the Fondation Louis Vuitton, a modern art museum in the Bois de Boulogne park in Paris, Fran
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Gehry was commissioned by River LA (formerly the Los Angeles River Revitalization Corporation), a nonprofit group founded by the city of Los Angeles in 2009 to coordinate river policy, to devise a wide-ranging new plan f
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Curated an exhibition of photography by his close friend and businessman Peter Arnell that ran from March 5 through April 1 at Milk Studios Gallery in Los Angeles
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Gehry was one of the six "iconoclasts" selected by French fashion house Louis Vuitton to design a piece using their iconic monogram pattern as part of their "Celebrating Monogram" campaign
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2012· 3 entries
Won Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012).
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Awarded Twenty-five Year Award (2012).
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Gehry designed the set for the Los Angeles Philharmonic's opera production of Mozart's Don Giovanni, performed at the Walt Disney Concert Hall
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded Steiger Award (2011).
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2010· 1 entry
When Gehry's 8 Spruce Street, originally known as Beekman Tower, was built 1 foot (0
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2009· 2 entries
Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2009).
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Architecture-inspired ice cream sandwich company Coolhaus named a cookie and ice cream combination after Gehry
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Charlemagne (2008).
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Won Golden Lion (2008).
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2006· 2 entries
Awarded California Hall of Fame (2006).
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Filmmaker Sydney Pollack made a documentary about Gehry's work, Sketches of Frank Gehry, which followed Gehry over five years and painted a positive portrait of his character; it was well-received critically
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2005· 1 entry
Gehry Technologies began a partnership with Dassault Systèmes to bring innovations from the aerospace and manufacturing world to AEC and developed Digital Project software, as well as GTeam software
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2004· 3 entries
Designed the trophy for the World Cup of Hockey
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Gehry designed the official trophy for the World Cup of Hockey
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Gehry voiced himself in an episode of the children's TV show Arthur called "Castles in the Sky", where he helped Arthur and his friends design a new treehouse
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2003· 1 entry
Gehry designed the scene for the American premiere of Janáček's Osud at the Gehry-designed Fisher Center at Bard College
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2002· 4 entries
Won Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal (2002).
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Won National Medal of Arts (2002).
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Awarded Companion of the Order of Canada (2002).
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And took his citizenship oath in Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's office
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Alcala (2001).
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2000· 2 entries
Won Royal Gold Medal (2000).
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Awarded National Design Awards (2000).
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1999· 1 entry
Won AIA Gold Medal (1999).
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1998· 2 entries
Awarded Frederick Kiesler Prize (1998).
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"The Art of the Motorcycle" exhibition opened at the Solomon R
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1997· 1 entry
Gehry vaulted to a new level of international acclaim when the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opened in Bilbao, Spain
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1994· 2 entries
Awarded The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize (1994).
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Won Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture (1994).
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1992· 2 entries
Awarded Wolf Prize in Architecture (1992).
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Awarded Praemium Imperiale (1992).
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1989· 2 entries
Awarded Pritzker Architecture Prize (1989).
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Gehry received the Pritzker Architecture Prize, where the jury described him: "Always open to experimentation, he has as well a sureness and maturity that resists, in the same way that Picasso did, being bound either by
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1988· 2 entries
Then in 2010 with an exhibition entitled "Frank Gehry from 1997"), and LACMA (2015)
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Revealed that he was also a sophisticated classical artist who knew European art history and contemporary sculpture and painting
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1986· 1 entry
Whose exhibition then traveled to the Toronto Harbourfront Museum, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the LACMA and the Whitney Museum
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1984· 1 entry
The fish has become a recurrent motif in Gehry's work, most notably in the Fish Sculpture at La Vila Olímpica del Poblenou in Barcelona (1989–92) and Standing Glass Fish for the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden (1986)
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1983· 1 entry
Gehry created the stage design for Lucinda Childs' dance Available Light, set to music by John Adams
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1978· 1 entry
Followed by the "Avant-Garde in Russia 1910–1930" exhibition in 1980
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1974· 1 entry
And he received many national, regional, and local AIA awards
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1966· 1 entry
And the "Billy Al Bengston Retrospective" in 1968
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1965· 1 entry
Gehry designed the exhibition display for the "Art Treasures of Japan" exhibition at the LACMA
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1962· 1 entry
Established a practice in Los Angeles that became Frank Gehry and Associates in 1967, then Gehry Partners in 2001
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1961· 1 entry
Gehry moved to Paris, where he worked for architect Andre Remonde
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1957· 1 entry
At age 28, he was given the chance to design his first private residence with friend and old classmate Greg Walsh
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1954· 3 entries
Where his professors included William Pereira
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Studied at USC School of Architecture, Bachelor of Architecture (1954).
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Gehry changed his surname from Goldberg to Gehry, after his then-wife Anita expressed concern about antisemitism
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1952· 1 entry
Gehry married Anita Snyder; in 1966, they were divorced
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1951· 2 entries
Several years after he and his family moved to Los Angeles
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When he became a naturalized American citizen, as dual citizenship was not an option for either country at the time
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1947· 1 entry
Gehry's family immigrated to the United States, settling in California
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1937· 1 entry
But moved back to Toronto after facing antisemitism
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1929· 2 entries
Born 1929-02-28.
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At Toronto General Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, to parents Sadie Thelma (née Kaplanski/Caplan) and Irving Goldberg
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1920· 1 entry
And purchased by Gehry in 1977, it features a metallic exterior wrapped around the original building that leaves many of the original details visible
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