Frank Owen Gehry

Frank Owen Gehry is a Canadian-born American architect and designer, residing in Los Angeles.

Preliminary sketches for the Panama Puente de Vida Museo | © Frank O. Gehry

A number of his buildings, including his private residence, have become world-renowned attractions. His works are cited as being among the most important works of contemporary architecture in the 2010 World Architecture Survey, which led Vanity Fair to label him as "the most important architect of our age".

Gehry Residence in Santa Monica, California (1978)

Gehry's best-known works include the titanium-clad Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles; Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, France; MIT Ray and Maria Stata Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts; 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 Vitra Design Museum and the MARTa Herford Museum in Germany; the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto; the Cinémathèque Française in Paris; and 8 Spruce Street in New York City.

His work is situated in the postmodernist current and in Deconstructivism, of which he is unanimously recognized as one of the leading exponents. The many distinctive features of Gehry’s style include formal lightness, oblique lines, and the use of materials that are often uncommon.

Over his long career, Gehry has received many prestigious awards, including the Pritzker Prize in 1989, the National Medal of Arts in 1998, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.

The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain

Credits

Designer: Frank Owen Gehry

Company: Gehry Partners LLP

Country: United States

Field: Architectural Design

Photographs: ©Arquitecturaviva / ©Gehry Partners LLP