06/12/2025
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Frank O. Gehry, arguably the most acclaimed American architect since Frank Lloyd Wright, died today following a brief respiratory illness, at his Santa Monica home at the age of 96.
Educated at the University of Southern California in the 1950s and thrust into the international spotlight with the completion of a brash home for himself in Santa Monica in 1978, Gehry attained unmatched levels of architectural celebrity with his titanium-clad Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, in 1997. His career spanned seven decades and comprised dozens of buildings that were celebrated and sometimes castigated for their novelty, iconoclasm, and, in the words of the jury that awarded him the 1989 Pritzker Prize, a “restless spirit” that made them “a unique expression of contemporary society and its ambivalent values.”
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Words by Todd Gannon
Photo © Melissa Majchrza
