Frank Gehry, originally Frank Goldberg, was born in 1929 in Toronto. He graduated from the University of Southern California in 1954 with a degree in architecture and studied city planning at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Gehry worked for architectural firms in California and Paris before opening his own practice in Santa Monica in 1962, which evolved into Gehry Partners, LLP by 2002. His work, known for its post-modern and deconstructive style, ranges from residential and commercial to large institutional structures. Notable projects include the Guggenheim Museum in Spain, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and the Dancing House in Prague. Gehry has also served as a professor at Yale and Harvard and as a visiting scholar in Switzerland. His contributions to architecture have been recognized with awards such as the Pritzker Prize and the National Medal of Arts. He is a fellow and trustee of multiple prestigious arts and architecture institutions. Gehry resides and works in Los Angeles, California.
