Canadian American architect, born 1929, whose sculptural, seemingly improvised buildings, worked out through physical models and realized with aerospace software, produced the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. A 1989 Pritzker laureate, he did more than anyone to make the computer an instrument of free architectural form.
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NationalityCanadian, later American 2 Defining ContributionSculptural form made buildable by digital design; Guggenheim Bilbao 2 Practice Type Classification
AwardPritzker Architecture Prize 1 Frank Gehry
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Awarded the AIA Gold Medal in 1999.
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Included in the naming 1988 exhibition, though he resisted the label.
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RIBA Royal Gold Medal recipient 2000
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1989 laureate, Pritzker Architecture Prize official laureate list (pritzkerprize.com/laureates)
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The Hyatt Foundation- Birth Year: 1929
- Nationality: Canadian, later American
- Defining Contribution: Sculptural form made buildable by digital design; Guggenheim Bilbao
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Frank Owen Gehry ( GAIR-ee; né Goldberg; February 28, 1929, December 5, 2025) was a Canadian and American architect and designer known for his postmodern designs and use of unconventional forms and materials.
- In Style: Deconstructivism, included in the 1988 MoMA Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition
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