Frank Owen Gehry was born in1929, in Canada but in 1947 he moves to Los Angeles with his family. Gehry was born into a Jewish family and change is original surname (Goldberg) on occasion of the birth of his first doughter becase he fears she could suffer as he did in his childhood in Toronto.
In 1954, he received his undergraduate degree in architecture from the University of Southern California and he studies in urban planning at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design in the years immediately following, worked in a number of firms including Victor Gruen Associates and Pereira and Luckman Associates.
He starts to work with Gruen Associates, in Los Angeles, where he reamains till 1960 and in 1962
after a year in Paris working for André Rémondet, he returned to California and opened a small office in Santa Monic, the Frank O. Gehry and Associates, Inc.
Prague, the Dancing House, three perspectives
In the Seventies he realized Spiller Residence in Venice (California) and his own house in Santa Monica (1978) which is cover with metal leaves and cages in wire.
Gehry eplores new shapes and new material respect to the traditional architecture.
With this buildings he starts to use humble materials, such as iron net, wires and plates, mould in eccentric shapes.
In the followoing decade he mainly express his creativity abroad, and in the early 1990s the introduction of sophisticated computer software has facilitated the construction and engineering of complex building systems and successfully translated the gestural quality of his work from model to built form. In particular from 1991 and 1997 he realized his best known work the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Bilbao (Spain).
This building does not simply represent a place which contains art works, it is itself an art work with his covering in leaves of titanium and his sinuous lines.
Beside of these projects, we cannot consider other amazing architectures, suche as the Walt Disney Concert Hall of Los Angeles, the DG Bank building, inPariser Platz and the Dancing house in Praguela Casao, currently seat of the Dutch National Offices.
Gehry won several prices of Architecture Prize, such as the l'Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architettura of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977 and the Pritz 1989.
In 1999 he receives the gold medal by the American Institute of Architects.
Prague, Dancing House, views
Progetti
Easy Edges furniture series 1972.
Exhibit Center Merriweather Post Pavilio e Rouse Campany Headquarters, Columbia, Maryland, USA(1974)
Gehry Residence 1978
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California, USA and other buildings (1978-2002)
Santa Monica Place, Santa Monica, California, USA (1980)
California Aerospace Mseum, Los Angeles, California, USA (1982-1994)
Edgemar Retail Complex, Santa Monica, California, USA (1984)
Chiat/Day Building, Venice, California, USA (1985-1991)
Vitra Design Museum, Vitra premises, Weil amRhein, Germany (1989)
Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, University og Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota USA (1990)
Iowa Advanced Technology Laboratories University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA (1987-1992)
Disney Village, Disneyland Resort Paris, France (1992)
Center for the Visula Arts, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA (1993)
America Center, Paris, France, 1994, (Attualmente Cinémathèque Française)
Dancing House ("Fred e Roger"), Praga, Repubblica Ceca, 1995.
Anaheim ICE (prima Disney ICE), Anaheim, California, 1995
Team Disney Anaheim. Anaheim, California, 1995.
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain, 1997
Der Neue Zollhof,Düsseldorf, Germany, 1999
Vontz Center For Molecular Studies, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 1999
DG Bank building, Pariser Platz 3, Berlino, Germany, 2000
Experience Music Project, Seattle, Washington, USA (2000)
Gehry Tower, Hanover, Germany (2001)
Issey Miyake, Flaship Store, New York, USA (2001)
Peter B. Lewis Building, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA (2002)
Richard B. Fisher Center for Performing Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA (2003)
Maggie's centre Ninewells Hospital Dundee Scotland (2003)
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California, USA (2003)
Ray and Mary Stata Center, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachhussetts, USA, (2004)
Pritzker Pavilion, Millenium Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA, MARTa, Herford, Germania (2005)
IAC/InterActiveCorp West Coast Headquarters, Sunset Strip, West Hollywood, California, USA
(2005)
Brian Transeau's house, Los Angeles, California,USA
Marqués de Riscal Winery, Elciego(Rioja (wine) region), Spain (2006).
