Overview
- Gehry died at his Santa Monica home of a brief respiratory illness, according to his chief of staff, Meaghan Lloyd.
- Signature works include the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (1997), the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and the Vitra Design Museum.
- Born Frank Owen Goldberg in Toronto in 1929, he moved to Los Angeles in 1947, earned an architecture degree at USC in 1954, studied urban planning at Harvard, and founded his Santa Monica practice in 1962.
- He received top honors such as the Pritzker Prize in 1989, the AIA Gold Medal in 1999, and Spain’s Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts in 2014.
- Reports note ongoing or developing projects associated with his studio, including the Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, Facebook’s West Campus in Menlo Park, and a planned residential tower in Berlin.