Overview
- His office confirmed the death to AFP on December 5, noting the short respiratory illness and his passing at home in Santa Monica.
- Signature works span the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (1997), Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles (2003), Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris (2014) and the LUMA tower in Arles (2021).
- He pioneered the use of advanced computer modeling, notably Dassault’s CATIA software, to realize complex, curving forms that redefined building design and construction.
- Born Frank Owen Goldberg in Toronto in 1929, he changed his name early in his career, and he received architecture’s top honor, the Pritzker Prize, in 1989.
- Tributes poured in from the Guggenheim Bilbao, LVMH’s Bernard Arnault, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, praising his lasting influence.