Overview
- Meaghan Lloyd, chief of staff at Gehry Partners, confirmed his death Friday morning and cited a brief respiratory illness.
- Toronto-born and Los Angeles–based, Gehry gained global renown with the 1997 Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, which helped spur the so‑called Bilbao effect in urban renewal.
- His signature projects include the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago, Paris’s Fondation Louis Vuitton, and New York’s 8 Spruce Street.
- A 1989 Pritzker Prize laureate, he popularized expressive, deconstructivist forms and pioneered advanced digital modeling to build complex geometries.
- He is survived by his wife, Berta, and children Sam, Alejandro, and Brina; his daughter Leslie died in 2008.