Frank Gehry is a master architect who is still living, and has greatly changed the face of architecture. He got this title from hard work. He started out small; building “little cities” out of wood scrapes as a child. His Grandmother was the one who influenced him to do this.

Frank was born in 1929, in Toronto, and at the age of 18 moved to Los Angeles, California. Gehry attained an architecture degree in 1954 at the University of Southern California. He started out his career in Paris, working for Pereira and Lickman. When he was in Paris his French education was an enormous help to him while working. He

“ I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect, and how to best contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity, and inequality, even passion and opportunity.”

studied works by LeCorbusier, Balthasar Neumann, and was attracted by the French Roman churches. In the late 1960’s he returned to the United States and founded Frank O. Gehry and Associates. He became famous after he developed plastic furniture. But over the years, Gehry had moved away from the conventional commercial practice to a more artistically directed atelier. For Frank, like most architects, the art of building is a serious and searching business. He pursues his muse with love and frustration, and with a sense of discovery in each undertaking with his exceptional set of skills. He is known for taking chances; he works close to the ed!

Frank Gehry’s career really took off with his masterpiece, The Guggenheim Museum. It opened up in 1997, and has attracted nearly two million tourists since the grand opening. The composition of the building continues to be a curvaceous, free

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