Overview
- U.S. outlets including CNN reported his Dec. 5 death, with Japanese media relaying the reports.
- He was widely regarded as a leading figure in contemporary architecture and a pioneer of deconstructivism.
- His signature works include the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, opened in 1997, and Los Angeles's Walt Disney Concert Hall.
- Born in Toronto in 1929, he moved to Los Angeles in 1947, studied at USC and Harvard, and later founded his own firm.
- He first drew broad attention in the late 1970s with a corrugated-metal renovation of his own house and went on to win the Pritzker Prize in 1989.