FRANK GEHRY

1.  Frank Owen Gehry was born
in Canada on February 28,
1929.
 He’s a jewish architect who
lives in North America and
have won some awards.
Frank Owen Gehry
Frank Gehry is a Canadian-
American architect known for
postmodern designs, including
the Walt Disney Concert Hall and
the Guggenheim Museum in
Bilbao, Spain.

2. FRANK GEHRY
Born Frank Owen Goldberg
February 28, 1929 (age 85)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality Canadian, American
Alma mater University of Southern California
Awards AIA Gold Medal
National Medal of Arts
Order of Canada
Pritzker Prize
Praemium Imperiale
Practice Gehry Partners, LLP
Buildings Guggenheim Museum, Walt Disney
Concert Hall, Gehry
Residence, Weisman Art
Museum, Dancing House, Art Gallery of
Ontario, EMP,Cinémathèque
française, 8 Spruce Street, Ohr-O'Keefe
Museum Of Art The Vontz Center for
Molecular Studies, University of
Cincinnati

3. biography
Frank Gehry was born Frank Owen Goldberg on February 28, 1929, in Toronto,
Canada. The Goldberg family was Polish and Jewish. Frank was creative at a young
age, building imaginary homes and cities from items found in his grandfather's
hardware store. This interest in unconventional building materials would come to
characterize Gehry's architectural work.
Gehry relocated to Los Angeles in 1949, holding a variety of jobs while attending
college. He would eventually graduate from the University of Southern California's
School of Architecture. It was during his time that he changed his Goldberg surname
to Gehry, in an effort to preclude anti-Semitism. In 1956, Gehry moved to
Massachusetts with his wife, Anita Snyder, to enroll at the Harvard Graduate School
of Design. He later dropped out of Harvard and divorced his wife, with whom he had
two daughters. In 1975, Gehry married Berta Isabel Aguilera, and had two more
children.

4. Much of Gehry's work falls within the style of Deconstructivism, which
is often referred to as post-structuralist in nature for its ability to go
beyond current modalities of structural definition. This can be seen in
Gehry's house in Santa Monica. In architecture, its application tends to
depart from modernism in its inherent criticism of culturally inherited
givens such as societal goals and functional necessity. Because of this,
unlike early modernist structures, Deconstructivist structures are not
required to reflect specific social or universal ideas, such as speed or
universality of form, and they do not reflect a belief that form follows
function. Gehry's own Santa Monica residence is a commonly cited
example of deconstructivist architecture, as it was so drastically
divorced from its original context, and in such a manner as to subvert
its original spatial intention.
ARCHITECTURAL STYLE

5. Frank gehry house

6. Awards
•1988: Elected into the National Academy of Design
•1989: Pritzker Architecture Prize
•1992: Praemium Imperiale
•1994: The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize
•1995: Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award
•1998: National Medal of Arts
•1999: AIA Gold Medal
•2000: Cooper–Hewitt National Design Award Lifetime
Achievement
•2003: Order of Canada]
•2004: Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service
•2006: Inductee, California Hall of Fame
•2007: Henry C. Turner Prize for Innovation in
Construction Technology from the National Building
Museum (on behalf of Gehry Partners and Gehry
Technologies)
•2008: Order of Charlemagne (declined
honor)[2012: Twenty-five Year Award

7.  After leaving Harvard, Frank
Gehry returned to California,
making a name for himself with
the launch of his "Easy Edges"
cardboard furniture line. The
Easy Edges pieces, crafted from
layers of corrugated cardboard,
sold between 1969 and 1973.
Wigle Side chair Style

8. Wigle side chair
Design: 1972
Production: 1972
Manufacturer: Easy Edges, Inc.,
New York
Size: 85 x 42.5 x 60; seat height
45.5 cms
Material: corrugated cardboard,
fiberboard,
round timber

9. The Fish
Frank Owen Gehry

10. The Fish
 The fish is the only sculpture that Frank Gehry has
designed in Barcelona.
 It was built in 1992 for The Olympic Games in
Barcelona and it’s located beside Mapfre towers and
Archs hotel in Barceloneta Beach.

11. Weatherhead School of Management,
Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, Ohio

12. Other Buildings
Frank Gehry moreover, has designed:
Guggenheim
musem (Bilbao,
Spain)
American
Center
(París,
France)
Walt
disney
concert
Hall
(Los
Ángeles,
EE.UU.)
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