Frank Gehry
(1929-)
Birthplace
Canada
This Pritzker
Prize-winning architect recently turned the Basque backwater of
Bilbao into a household name with his miraculous, titanium-wrapped
structure for the Guggenheim Museum's most ambitious outpost. The
confidence with which he has expanded the vocabulary of
architecture is clearly demonstrated in his furniture designs.
Frank Gehry studied architecture at UCLA and pursued graduate
studies at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. He later worked as
a designer with Victor Gruen Associates, Robert and Co. Architects
in Atlanta, Pereira and Luckman in Los Angeles and André
Remondet in Paris. For Knoll, he created the bentwood furniture
collection (1989) and the FOG® table and chair (2000). He has
also collaborated on projects with sculptors Richard Serra and
Claes Oldenburg. His buildings include the California Aerospace
Museum and Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Fish Dance
Restaurant in Kobe, Japan, the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am
Rhine, Germany, and the Experience Music Project in Seattle. His
collection of cardboard furniture, Easy Edges, set a new precedent
for the use of materials. He has been on the faculty at Harvard and
Yale, and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Mr.
Gehry has been the subject of several exhibitions, including a
recent retrospective at New York's Guggenheim Museum.
