Frank Gehry

The most famous building designed by Frank is the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain, described by Time Magazine as "The Building of the Century". More recently he completed the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA.

Frank Gehry (1929-) was born in Toronto, Canada and has become a naturalised American citizen.

The architect has won the most prestigious architecture & design awards incl. Pritzker Architecture Prize (1989) American Institute of Architects Gold Medal (1999) and the Royal Institute of British Architects Gold Medal (2000).

22 Jun 2005, Prague, Czech Republic — The Rasin Building, the official name for what has become known as the Fred and Ginger Building, was designed by Frank O. Gehry and Czech co-architect Vladimir Milunic. — Image by © Paul Seheult/Eye Ubiquitous/Corbis

Here’s the last of the Frank Gehry buildings you’ll be pleased to know. I like that it looks like a giant has shot-gunned a can of Bud and done the macho crushing thing before tossing it in the general direction of Seattle. Others haven’t been so kind:

Here’s the first of the buildings in the Frank Gehry collection. In a way it seems rather odd that Disney went for this, but then again it also seems perfectly apt.

Not only do I like this building, I also like the idea that it was commissioned after Mr. Gehry had designed a bus stop for the city of Hanover, too. It’s nice to know the likes of Frank Gehry are offered the little piddling jobs as a means of checking work standards before getting the creamy jobs. If only we could say the same here at Butler Sheetmetal.

Welcome to the new world of modern architecture. Frank Gehry, who first brought curvy buildings to public attentioin, may not have been constrained by sheets of plywood, but was constrained nevertheless by architectural CAD software. He had to resort to CATIA to liberate his design. The concept of organic shapes -- and functions -- seems to now being led by the Smart Geometry organization. Bentley is a big champion of generative components ("GC," as they are being called) and has flow in a bunch of us journalists to make sure word gets out.