I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did and I get the sweats, I go in and start working, I’m not sure where I’m going- if I knew where I was going I wouldn’t do it.
Frank Gerhy 1929
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Spain 1997
I had the pleasure of visiting my 1st Frank Gerhry building in 2011″,. It was raining heavily as my husband and I drove into Bilbao the Guggenheim building was our landmark.
Born Frank Owen Goldberg; February 28, 1929 (He changed his name in 1956 to Gerhry on his 1st wives Anita Snyders suggestion in part because of the anti-semitism he had experienced)
A creative child, he was encouraged by his grandmother, Mrs. Caplan, with whom he would build little cities and imaginary houses out of scraps from her husband’s hardware store.
Having grown up in Canada, Gehry is a huge fan of ice hockey, he has dual Canadian american citizenship
Gehry moved to California in 1947, got a job driving a delivery truck, and studied at Los Angeles City College
Gerhry structures are Deconstructive, they do not reflect a belief that form follows function Gehry’s style at times seems unfinished or even crude, but his work is consistent with the California “funk” art movement in the 1960s and early 1970s
Gehry has gained a reputation for taking the budgets of his clients seriously, in an industry where complex and innovative designs like Gehry’s typically go over budget.
He is the 1989 Canadian-American Pritzker Prize-winning architect’
Gehry is a Distinguished Professor of Architecture at Columbia University and teaches advanced design studios at the Yale School of Architecture.
Vanity Fair labelled him “the most important architect of our age” Gehry is considered a modern architectural icon and celebrity, a major “Starchitect”.
He currently lives in Santa Monica, California, and continues to practice out of Los Angeles.
