image of the architect received Sep 2003

The most famous building by Frank is the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain, described by Time Magazine as "The Building of the Century"; recently he has completed the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA.

Frank Gehry (1929-) was born in Toronto, Canada and has become a naturalised American citizen.

Key recent Frank Gehry Building:
The Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California, USA
2003

Photo © Andrew McRae
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Home to the Los Angeles Philharmonic: the concert hall is a key part of the cultural hub in downtown Los Angeles and after Bilbao became his 'next big thing'.

Frank Gehry - List of Buildings

Key iconic Frank Gehry Building:
Bilbao Guggenheim

Photo © Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Featured Frank Gehry Buildings:
Serpentine Pavilion 2008, London, UK

Photograph © Gehry Partners LLP 2008
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

InterActivCorp Headquarters, New York, USA

© 2008 Gehry Partners LLP
InterActivCorp New York

Maggies Centre, Dundee, Scotland, UK
2003
with James F Stephen Architects

Image © Adrian Welch
Maggies Centre photos
Frank Gehry's reinterpretation of a Scottish Broch: Signature architecture of shiny surfaces on 'vernacular' base. Gehry was selected to design Dundee Maggies Centre by friend Charles Jencks and his late wife, Maggie Keswick-Jencks - who died of cancer and set about creating civilised buildings for people learning to cope with cancer.

Barcelona Fish Sculpture : Frank Gehry Building Photos
1992
See the link above for more photos of this Spanish building

photos © Adrian Welch
Images available upon request: photos 1280x1024 pixels, 72dpi

Frank Gehry - the architect:

images received Sep 2003

Contact:
Frank 0. Gehry & Associates Inc
1520-B Cloverfield Boulevard Santa Monica, CA 90404 USA
tel 310 828 6088 fax 310 828 2098

Winner of RIBA Gold Medal 2000

Gehry Partners - Building News:
Dubai Guggenheim - proposal, UAE
2007-

InterActiveCorp HQ - IAC Headquarters, West Die Highway, Chelsea, New York
2007
Cost: £50m

Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation, Paris, France
Cost: £70m
French project

Marqués de Riscal Winery, Rioja, Spain
2007

MARTa Herford, Germany
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Exuberant brick building with wild metal roof that looks like it has been draped on, as opposed to the earlier Bilbao Guggenheim where the roof and walls become one, intertwined using the same material.

Hotel Marqués De Riscal, Elciego, Spain
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Frank Gehry's second Spanish building

Le Clos Jordanne - Winery, Ontario, Canada
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Neue Zollhof office complex, Düsseldorf , Germany

photo © webbaviation

Novartis pharmaceutical company building, Switzerland
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Sanaa Architects + Diener & Diener Architects + Frank Gehry Architects

Fred & Ginger building, Jiraskuv Bridge, central Prague
aka The Dancing Building, officially the Rasin Building



Frank Gehry: The Architect
Frank Gehry is Design Principal for the firm of Gehry Partners. Before founding the practice, Frank Gehry worked with architects Victor Gruen and Pereira & Luckman in Los Angeles, and with André Remondet in Paris.

Raised in Toronto, Canada, Frank Gehry moved with his family to Los Angeles in 1947. Gehry received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California in 1954, and he studied City Planning at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

As well as architecture, Frank Gehry has made many designs for cardboard & bentwood furniture.

Frank Gehry - Awards:
Pritzker Architecture Prize 1989
Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture 1977
Wolf Prize in Art (Architecture) 1992
Praemium Imperiale Award 1992
Gold Medal - American Institute of Architects 1999
Gold Medal - Royal Institute of British Architects 2000
Lifetime Achievement Award - Americans for the Arts 2000

Gehry Partners
There are three architect partners of the company: Frank Gehry, James Glymph, & Randy Jefferson. Gehry Partners is located in Santa Monica, California. The firm uses CATIA, a three-dimensional computer modeling program - originally designed for the aerospace industry.

Barcelona Architecture

German Buildings

Another key building not far from the Frank Gehry building in Dundee is another Maggies Centre - by Zaha Hadid



World Architects

Frank Gehry Client & Friend - Charles Jencks

World Architecture : e-architect - a guide to key buildings across the globe

Frank Gehry Pavilion : Serpentine London Photos

Bilbao Guggenheim

Building image received Sep 2003

Gehry Exhbitiion
18 Feb – 7 May 2006: Toronto

Spanish Buildings

Frank Gehry award - Pritzker Prize Winner 1989

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Guggenheim Leith: unbuilt Scottish proposal

Buildings / photos for the Frank Gehry Architecture page welcome:
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Frank Gehry Architect - page : adrian welch / isabelle lomholt

Gehry Partners LLP - www.foga.com