Remembering acclaimed architect Frank Gehry

Remembering acclaimed architect Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry, who designed some of the most imaginative buildings ever constructed and achieved a level of worldwide acclaim seldom afforded any architect, has died. He was 96. Gehry died Friday in his home in Santa Monica after a brief respiratory illness, said Meaghan Lloyd, chief of staff at Gehry Partners LLP. Gehry’s fascination with modern pop art led to the creation of distinctive, striking buildings. Among his many masterpieces are the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and Berlin’s DZ Bank Building. He also designed an expansion of Facebook’s Northern California headquarters at the insistence of the company’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. Gehry was awarded every major prize architecture has to offer, including the field’s top honor, the Pritzker Prize, for what has been described as “refreshingly original and totally American” work. Today on AirTalk, we look back at the life and legacy of Frank Gehry with Christopher Hawthorne, senior architecture critic at Yale; he was architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times and Sylvia Lavin, professor of history and theory of architecture at Princeton School of Architecture.

With files from the Associated Press.

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