Life and Works of Frank Gehry

Architect of Guggenheim Museusm

Aug 15, 2008 Rachel L. Webb

The prolific and gifted architect Frank Gehry works can be found across America and into Europe, with famous landmarks such as the Guggenheim Museusm in Bilbao, Spain

Frank O. Gehry - Architect

Frank O. Gehry grew up in Toronto (Canada) and moved in 1947 moved his family to Los Angeles. He is the Director of Design of the firm Frank O. Gehry and Associates, Inc. (1962).

Obtaining his university degree in Architecture from the University of South California in1954 he then studied City Planning at the Graduate School of Design of the University of Harvard.

He continue his career as an architect over the next four decades, working on private and public buildings in America, Europe and Asia. An article in the New York Times in November 1989, by the famous architecture critic, Paul Goldberger, said that his buildings "have great power and primal geometrical forms and from an aesthetic viewpoint are among the most profound and brilliant in modern architecture".

Gehry's works have been brought him many top prizes and awards in the field of architecture

The Works and Awards of Gehry

• 1977: Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
• 1989: Pritzker Architecture Prize, perhaps the highest recognition in this field, to honour his “important contributions to humanity and to construction through architecture."
• 1992: Wolf Prize in Art (Architecture from the Wolf Foundation. The same year he received the Praemium Imperiale Award from the Association of Arts of Japan to "honour the great contributions to the development, popularisation and progress of the arts".
• 1994: first winner of the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Award for his lifetime contribution to the arts."
• 1998: National Medal of Arts and first winner of the Friedrich Kiesler Prize.
• 1999: Lotos Medal of Merit of the Lotos Club and the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects.
• 2006: Americans for the Arts have awarded him the Lifetime Achievement award.

Other awards:

• 1987: nominated a member of the American Academy of the Arts and Letters.
• 1989: Council Member of the American Academy of Rome.
• 1991: elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• 1994: title of Academician from the National Academy of Design.
• 1998: appointed Honorary Academician by the Royal Academy of the Arts.

Some of his more recent projects:

• Corcoran Gallery and the School of Art - Washington DC
• The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao - Spain
• Experience Music Project in Seattle - Washington
• Millennium Park Music Pavilion and Great Lawn in Chicago - Illinois
• Maggie's Centre, a cancer outpatients’ centre - Dundee Scotland
• The Team Disneyland Administration Building in Anaheim - California
• Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles - California
• Hotel Marqués de Riscal - Spain
• Gehry Pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery - Kensington Gardens

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Hotel Marques de Riscal