Frank Gehry

Raised in Toronto, Canada, Frank Gehry moved with his family to Los Angeles in 1947, at the age of eighteen. Mr. Gehry received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California, and he studied City Planning at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Before establishing his own firm, Mr. Gehry apprenticed with architects Victor Gruen and Pereira & Luckman in Los Angeles, and with Andre Remondet in Paris.

In subsequent years, he built an architectural career that has spanned four decades and produced public and private buildings in America, Asia and Europe. In an article published in the New York Times in November 1989, architecture critic Paul Goldberger wrote that Mr. Gehry's buildings are powerful essays in primal geometric form and ... materials, and from an aesthetic standpoint they are among the most profound and brilliant works of architecture of our time.

Hallmarks of Mr. Gehry's design process include a particular concern for the ways in which people move through, live, and work comfortably within the spaces he creates, and an insistence that his buildings address the context and culture of their sites. He has received honorary doctoral degrees from the California College of Arts and Crafts, the Technical University of Nova Scotia, the Rhode Island School of Design, the California Institute of Arts, and the Otis Art Institute at the Parsons School of Design.

Mr. Gehry's work has been featured in major professional publications and national and international trade journals, as well as in Newsweek, Time Magazine, Art In America, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Le Monde, LExpress and Frankfurter Allgemeine. His drawings and models, his designs for cardboard and bentwood furniture, and his interpretations (in various forms and materials) of fish, have been exhibited in museums around the world.