Frank O. Gehry, the architect who changed the civic landscape of his adopted hometown of Los Angeles, has died

"Architect Frank O. Gehry, who brought an alluringly new kind of shape-making to his profession even as he fundamentally changed the reputation and civic landscape of his adopted hometown of Los Angeles in such projects as the shimmering Walt Disney Concert Hall on Grand Avenue, has died. He was 96. Gehry, who arrived in L.A. as an aimless teenager just after World War II and went on to become the most famous and one of the most influential architects in the world"

"The museum was widely praised for its breathtaking and sinuous profile and dramatic relationship to the Nervión River at its feet. Just as important, it helped reenergize and bring new media attention to architecture. Still looking for direction after the breakdown of the Modern movement and the repeated false starts of a historically minded Postmodernism, the profession badly needed a boost."

Frank O. Gehry transformed Los Angeles civic identity with bold, shape-making architecture such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall. He arrived in L.A. after World War II and developed a six-decade career that made him one of the most famous architects globally. Gehry Partners pioneered digital design and fabrication methods that enabled complex, flowing geometries. The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, opened in 1997, showcased those capabilities, revitalized public interest in architecture and spurred demand for signature projects by star architects. Gehry died at his Santa Monica home following a brief respiratory illness at age 96.

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