"His sometimes controversial, but always arresting body of work, has been variously described as iconoclastic, rambunctious and impermanent, but the jury, in making this award, commends this restless spirit that has made his buildings a unique expression of contemporary society and its ambivalent values,"
"Always open to experimentation, he has as well a sureness and maturity that resists, in the same way that Picasso did, being bound either by critical acceptance or his successes."
"In this world we are living in, 98% of everything that is built and designed today is pure shit,"
"There's no sense of design, no respect for humanity or for anything else. They are damn buildings and that's it."
Frank Gehry died at home at age 96. He designed landmark buildings including the Guggenheim Bilbao, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Museum of Pop Culture and Prague’s Dancing House. He received the Pritzker Prize in 1989. The Pritzker citation praised his arresting, experimental, and iconoclastic work and noted a sureness and maturity that resisted being bound by critical acceptance or success. Gehry criticized much contemporary building as lacking design and respect for humanity. Late in his career he taught a Yale seminar examining the intersections between architecture and incarceration. He remained widely recognized beyond the profession.
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