Frank Gehry

Frank O. Gehry was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1929. He studied at the University of Southern California and Harvard University, before he established his first practice, Frank O. Gehry and Associates in 1963. In 1979, this practice was succeeded by the firm Gehry & Krueger, Inc.

Over the years, Gehry has moved away from a conventional commercial practice to an artistically directed atelier. His deconstructed architectural style began to emerge in the late 1970s when Gehry, directed by a personal vision of architecture, created collage-like compositions out of found materials. Instead of creating buildings, Gehry creates ad-hoc pieces of functional sculpture. Gehry’s architecture has undergone a marked evolution from the plywood and corrugated-metal vernacular of his early works to the distorted but pristine concrete of his later works. However, the works retain a deconstructed aesthetic that fits well with the increasingly disjointed culture to which they belong.

World-renowned architect Frank O. Gehry designed the Millennium Park Music Pavilion. The pavilion features dramatic ribbons of sculpture, stainless steel and a state-of-the-art trellised sound system. Among many architectural and design works, Gehry designed the DG Bank Building in Berlin, Germany, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington, the Vitra Design Museum in Germany, the Herman Miller Facilities at Rocklin, California and the California Aerospace Museum in Los Angeles.

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