Frank Owen Gehry (born Frank Owen Goldberg) was born February 28, 1929, in Toronto. He studied architecture at the University of Southern California and established his practice in Los Angeles in 1962, building an approach that mixed rigorous planning with unconventional materials and forms. His work became widely associated with bold, expressive architecture that treats buildings as dynamic objects in motion.
Gehry created some of the most recognizable buildings of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. He died on December 5, 2025, at his home in Santa Monica, California, after a brief respiratory illness, at age 96.
