"Frank Gehry, one of the most influential and distinctive talents in American architecture, died Friday at his home in Los Angeles following a brief respiratory illness, his chief of staff confirmed to the New York Times. He was 96. Gehry, the most recognizable American architect since Frank Lloyd Wright, was one of the first to embrace the potential of computer design, and pioneered a distinctively exuberant style of bravura power, whimsical and arresting collisions of form."
"His most famous work remains the Guggenheim Museumin Bilbao, a fantastical, titanium-clad composition on the Nervion River which received international acclaim upon its opening in 1997, heralding a new era of emotive architecture. The project gave its name to a phenomenon the Bilbao effect in which decaying old cities tried to spur revival with spectacular architecture, and became, as Guardian critic Rowan Moore put it in 2019, the icon of what would be called iconic architecture."
Frank Gehry died Friday at his Los Angeles home at age 96 following a brief respiratory illness, confirmed by his chief of staff. He was one of the most influential and distinctive American architects, known as the most recognizable since Frank Lloyd Wright, who embraced computer design and pioneered an exuberant style defined by whimsical, arresting collisions of form. His Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, a fantastical titanium-clad composition on the Nervion River opened in 1997, received international acclaim and inaugurated the so-called Bilbao effect of revival through spectacular architecture. Other notable works include the Walt Disney Concert Hall (2003), Miami's New World Center (2011), and the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris (2014).
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