Overview
- Gehry died on December 5 at his Santa Monica home at age 96 while suffering from a respiratory illness, according to U.S. media reports citing CNN.
- He emerged as a leading voice of deconstructivist design, celebrated for unconventional geometries and material experimentation.
- Landmark works include the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, which opened in 1997, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
- He received architecture’s top honor, the Pritzker Prize, in 1989.
- Born in Toronto in 1929, he moved to Los Angeles in 1947, studied at USC and Harvard, and first drew wide attention in the late 1970s with his corrugated-metal house renovation.