Frank Gehry
Canadian, born 1929
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BiographyFrank Gehry was born in 1929 in Toronto, Canada. He received his undergraduate degree in architecture at the University of Southern California in 1954 and then went on to the Graduate School of Design at Harvard, although he did not complete the program there. His career as an architect took off after he won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1989 and eventually he was able to start his own architectural practice. Gehry’s work has a deconstructed quality and often appears like free form sculpture. He often begins a project with an abstract sketch, which he calls “the messiness,” although not all of his preparatory sketches ultimately become architecture. Some of his more prominent buildings include the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and the EMP Museum in Seattle. Gehry lives and works in Los Angeles. (From Paths and Edges exhibition, Guggenheim Gallery, August 2015)