It is not common for architects to become known names. But Frank Gehry has never been governed by any common practice. The award -winning architect has been disrupting the very meaning of the design within architecture. From the emblematic Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (That Philip Johnson described as «the largest building of our time») to the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, Gehry has demonstrated again and again the force that occurs when the capricious design is done with a mastery.
Born in Canada in 1929, The architect Frank Gehry He studied at the University of Southern California and at the Higher School of Design of Harvard University. He began his career in Los Angeles working for Victor Gruen Associates and Pereira and Luckman. After a brief stay in Paris working with Andre Remondet, the Canadian-American architect returned to California and founded his own firm, Frank O. Gehry & Associatesin 1962 (his successor, Gehry Partnersit was created in 2002).
In the years elapsed since the beginning of his career, the architect has been recognized again and again by his innovative and distinctive approach to the design. In 1989 he won the Architecture Pritzker Prizeto which the Praemium Imperiale Architecture Prize of the Japanese Art Association in 1992, the National Medal of Arts in 1998, the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects in 1999 and the Gold Medal of Architecture of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2002. In 2016, in 2016, it was even honored with the presidential medal of La Libertad by President Barack Obama. A man apparently without limits, There is no bad time to celebrate Gehry's work. Next, AD Review 29 of its most recognizable structures worldwide.