Frank Owen Gehry was born in Toronto, Canada, February 28, 1929. He was a creative child who played with wooden sticks building small towns with his grandmother. He spent time drawing with his father, and his mother was the one who introduced him to the world of art.

“So the creative genes were there … But my father thought I was a dreamer, I wasn't gonna amount to anything. It was my mother who thought I was just reticent to do things. She would push me.”

In 1947 he moved to California and attended Los Angeles City College, eventually graduating from the University of Southern California's School of Architecture in 1954. He took a break from the practice of architecture, working in various sectors, but went back to school for one year to study City Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design

Influences

Gehry worked for the office, Wdton Becket & Associates, for Victor Gruen in Los Angeles, and for Remondet in Paris.

In 1962, he started his own office designing a wide variety of residential, commercial and institutional sites. And it was with his own house that he best gained notoriety for his work.

Works

Frank Gehry receives frequent criticism for his work because its architecture is very controversial and has unusual shapes and movements. But looking at his works, we can notice the trend and direction of his projects, as well as the concepts of his architecture. In purer forms, through the famous icons such as binoculars, to the organic volumes.

In some works, deconstructive provisions are clear, but when released to the organic shapes these features go beyond. Like it or not, the architecture of Frank Gehry is recognized and visited throughout the world, with postcard towns that were forgotten by tourism.

“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”

Easy Edges Furniture series

Loyola Law School, California, USA

Edgemar Retail Complex, California, USA

Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood Regional Library, California, USA

Chiat/Day Building, California, USA

Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany

Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, Minnesota, USA

Iowa Advanced Technology Laboratories, Iowa, USA

Center for the Visual Arts, Ohio, USA

American Center, Paris, France

Dancing House, Prague, Czech Republic

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain

Der Neue Zollhof, Dusseldorf, Germany

DZ Bank Building, Berlin, Germany

Experience Music Project, Washington, USA

Gehry Tower, Hanover, Germany

Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Bard College, New York, USA

Maggie’s Dundee, Dundee, Scotland

Walt Disney Concert Hall, California, USA

Ray and Maria Stata Center, Massachusetts, USA

Jay Pritzker Pavillion, Illinois, USA

MARTa Museum, Herford, Germany

IAC/InterActiveCorp Headquarters, USA

Marqués de Riscal, Elciego, Spain

Art Gallery Of Ontario renovation, Ontario, Canada

Gehry House, California, USA