Overview
- Gehry’s office confirmed he died on December 5 at his Santa Monica home after a short respiratory illness, aged 96.
- Signature works include the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, LUMA Arles, and New York’s 8 Spruce Street.
- His practice helped mainstream complex curvilinear architecture through extensive computer modeling, notably the CATIA software originally developed for aerospace.
- Born Frank Owen Goldberg in Toronto in 1929, he later changed his surname to Gehry to guard against antisemitism and received the Pritzker Prize in 1989.
- Institutional tributes poured in from the Guggenheim Bilbao, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and LVMH’s Bernard Arnault, as coverage also notes his role in a planned Guggenheim project in Abu Dhabi.