Frank O. Gehry

Frank O. Gehry was born in Toronto in 1929 and has practised in Los Angeles since 1962, when he established Frank O. Gehry and Associates; the practice became Gehry Partners, LLP in 2001. Every project is designed personally by him, supported by a studio of senior architects working with Digital Project, the 3D modelling software adapted from aerospace engineering.

His buildings – the Guggenheim in Bilbao, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, the LUMA tower in Arles – made him the most recognisable architect of the digital turn, and in 1989 he received the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Furniture, jewellery and product editions run parallel to the architecture, while Gehry Partners continues with museums, academic buildings and masterplans.