Frank Gehry, the most celebrated architect of his time, dies at 96
By JOHN ROGERS LOS ANGELES AP Frank Gehry the the bulk celebrated architect of his time has died He was Related Articles The Supreme Court will decide whether Trump s birthright citizenship order violates the Constitution Grand jury transcripts from abandoned Epstein assessment in Florida ordered circulated Day of Luigi Mangione s pretrial hearing is postponed because he s sick judge says What Netflix s acquisition of Warner Bros means for the movies Trump administration will expand journey ban to more than countries Noem says Gehry died Friday in his home in Santa Monica after a brief respiratory illness commented Meaghan Lloyd chief of staff at Gehry Partners LLP Gehry won every major prize that architecture has to offer Gehry s fascination with modern pop art led to the creation of various of the majority of wildly imaginative buildings ever constructed and brought him a measure of worldwide acclaim seldom afforded any architect Among his various masterpieces are the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao Spain The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and Berlin s DZ Bank Building FILE The Louis Vuitton Foundation building designed by American architect Frank Gehry is pictured before the presentation of Louis Vuitton s Spring Summer ready-to-wear fashion collection in Paris Wednesday Oct AP Photo Francois Mori File LOS ANGELES OCTOBER TABS OUT The Concert Hall Exterior at the Walt Disney Concert Hall opening gala day one of three October in Los Angeles California Photo by Frazer Harrison Getty Images for LAPA Pedestrians walk past Guggenheim museum under a cloudy sky in Bilbao on June Photo by Marco BERTORELLO AFP Photo by MARCO BERTORELLO AFP via Getty Images 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 Other honors include the Royal Institute of British Architects gold medal and the Americans for the Arts lifetime achievement award
