Renowned American architect Frank Gehry has died in California at the age of 97, The New York Times reported, citing his representative, Meghan Lloyd.
Frank Gehry was born in Toronto in 1929 to a family of Polish immigrants. He was educated at the University of Southern California and Harvard. He began working as an architect in the late 1950s, and in 1962 he opened his own firm in Los Angeles.
Gehry is considered one of the most outstanding architects of our time and one of the founders of deconstructivism, a style that breaks traditional forms and creates expressive, unusual volumes.
His projects are known throughout the world. Among the most iconic are the "Dancing House" in Prague, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao (1990s), the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles (2000s), the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, and the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin (2017). These buildings have become architectural symbols of their cities and are often mentioned as an example of bold creative thinking.
In 1989, Frank Gehry received the Pritzker Prize, the highest award in the world of architecture, often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Architecture."
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