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Raised in Toronto, Canada, Frank Gehry moved with his family to Los Angeles in 1947. He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California in 1954 and studied City Planning at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design before opening his own agency in Los Angeles in 1962.

Biography

In subsequent years, Gehry has built an architectural career that has spanned over six decades and produced public and private buildings in America, Europe and Asia. His work has earned Gehry several of the most significant awards in the architectural field, including the Pritzker Prize. Notable projects include Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California, USA; Eight Spruce Street Residential Tower in New York City, USA; Opus Residential Tower in Hong Kong; Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, France; the Dr. Chau Chak Wing Building for the University of Technology, in Sydney, Australia; the Louis Vuitton Maison Seoul, South Korea; the LUMA / Parc des Ateliers in Arles, France. Projects under construction include Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Facebook Campus in Menlo Park, California, USA; the Grand Avenue Project in Los Angeles, California, USA; a new centre for the Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA) in Inglewood, California, USA; the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial in Washington D.C., USA; and the Battersea Power Station Development in London, England.

Bibliographic resources

Migayrou, Frédéric ; Bredekamp, Horst ; Cherruet Sébastien... [et al.]. Frank Gehry : La Fondation Louis Vuitton : [exposition, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, 24 octobre 2014 - 16 mars 2015]. Paris : Fondation Louis Vuitton, 2014.

Lemonier, Aurélien ; Migayrou, Frédéric. Frank Gehry : [Exposition Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Galerie Sud, Paris, 8 octobre 2014 - 26 janvier 2015]. Paris : Centre Georges Pompidou, 2014.

Museum of contemporary art (Los Angeles, Calif.) ; Hodge, Brooke. F.O.G. : flowing in all directions : [exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 7 September 2003 - 26 January 2004]. Los Angeles : Circa : Museum of Contemporary Art, 2003.

Ragheb, Fiona J. ; Cohen, Jean-Louis ; Colomina, Béatrice... [et al.]. Frank Gehry, architect : [exposition], Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New-York, May 18 - August 26, 2001 ; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, October 29, 2001 - February 1, 2002. New York : Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2001.
Gehry Frank O. : projets en Europe : [exposition], Centre de Création Industrielle, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 13 mars - 10 juin 1991. Paris : Centre Georges Pompidou, 1992.

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