Frank Gehry - Definition and Overview

The Gehry tower in Hannover

Frank Owen Gehry (born Ephraim Goldberg on February 28, 1929) is an architect known for his interesting use of metal sheathing for his buildings. He was born in Toronto, Canada, but moved to California at age 17 where he graduated from the University of Southern California School of Architecture. He is today a naturalized American citizen and lives in Los Angeles. He is best known for building curvaceous structures that often include a lot of titanium. His most famous work, and the clearest expression of his style, is the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.

Works

Completed

• Exhibit Center, Merriweather Post Pavilion, and Rouse Company Headquarters, Columbia, Maryland, USA (1974)
• Santa Monica Place, Santa Monica, California USA (1980)
• Edgemar Retail Complex, Santa Monica, California USA (1984)
• Chiat/Day Building, Venice, California USA (1985-1991)
• Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (1990) [1] (http://www.weisman.umn.edu/architecture/arch.html)
• Center for the Visual Arts, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA (1993) [2] (http://www.cva.utoledo.edu/CVABuild.html)
• American Center, Paris, France (1994) [3] (http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/americancenter/)
• Fred and Ginger (officially Rasin Building), Prague, Czech Republic (1995) [4] (http://lava.ds.arch.tue.nl/gallery/praha/tgehry.html)
• Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain (1997)
• Der Neue Zollhof, Düsseldorf, Germany (1999) [5] (http://www.arcspace.com/architects/gehry/zolhoff/)
• Vontz Center for Molecular Studies, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA (1999) [6] (http://vontz.uc.edu/)
• DG Bank building, Pariser Platz 3, Berlin, Germany (2000)
• Experience Music Project, Seattle, Washington, USA (2000)
• Gehry Tower, Hanover, Germany (2001)
• Peter B. Lewis Building, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA (2002) [7] (http://weatherhead.cwru.edu/lewis/) [8] (http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/peterblewis/)
• Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA (2003) [9] (http://fishercenter.bard.edu/about/) [10] (http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/portfolio/archives/0307bard.asp)
• Maggie's centre, Dundee, Scotland (2003) [11] (http://www.maggiescentres.org/maggies/mag_centres.jsp?pContentID=420&p_applic=CCC&p_service=Content.show&)
• Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California, USA (2003)
• Art Gallery of Ontario renovation, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (2004)
• Ray and Maria Stata Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (2004) [12] (http://web.mit.edu/buildings/statacenter/)
• Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA (2004) [13] (http://www.chicagoarchitecture.info/ShowBuilding.php?ID=250)

In progress

• Museum of Tolerance, Jerusalem, Israel (expected completion in 2008) [14] (http://www.europaconcorsi.com/db/pub/scheda.php?id=1994)
• New wing for Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC, USA (construction begins in 2006) [15] (http://www.corcoran.org/New_wing/index.htm)
• Science library, Princeton University [16] (http://www.princeton.edu/pr/home/02/1024_contrasts/hmcap.html)
• Ohr-O'Keefe Museum, Biloxi, Mississippi, USA (open 2005; all buildings expected to be complete by 2007) [17] (http://www.georgeohr.org/newmuseum.htm)

Awards

• Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture, American Academy of Arts and Letters (1977)
• Pritzker Architecture Prize (1989)
• Wolf Prize in Art (Architecture), Wolf Foundation (1992)
• Praemium Imperiale Award for Architecture, Japan Art Association (1992)
• Dorothy and Lillian Gish Award (1994)
• National Medal of Arts (1998)
• Friedrich Kiesler Prize (1998)
• Gold Medal, American Institute of Architects (AIA) (1999)
• Gold Medal, Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) (2000)
• Gold Medal for Architecture, American Academy of Arts and Letters (2002)
• Companion of the Order of Canada (2002)

External links

• Gehry's company website (http://www.gehrytechnologies.com)
• Pritzker Prize page on Gehry (http://www.pritzkerprize.com/gehry.htm)
• Collection of links (http://www.architecturecafe.com/farchit.asp?pphase=farch&reposted=yes&prelid=16) to articles and picture collections about Gehry.