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fromThe Washington Post
3 hours agoFrank Gehry, who stretched architecture's boundaries, dies at 96
Frank Gehry revolutionized modern architecture with expressive, curvilinear, sculpture-like buildings like the Guggenheim Bilbao and Walt Disney Concert Hall, influencing global design and urban renewal.
fromARTnews.com
2 hours agoFrank Gehry, Starchitect Whose Museum Designs Defined an Era, Dies at 96
Frank Gehry, an award-winning architect whose designs for museums proved widely influential, died on Friday in Santa Monica, California, at 96. According to the New York Times, which first reported the news, the cause was a brief respiratory illness. More so than perhaps any other architect of the past half-century, Gehry defined the field of museum architecture. His designs, often composed of sloping, incongruous forms, helped move art institutions in a new direction, showing that they need not only be set in Neoclassical pantheons
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