Architect Frank Gehry, Who Turned Buildings Into Sculptures, Dies at 96

""the greatest building of our time""

""the greatest architect we have today.""

""There's a whole feeling of life that's different," he said. "It makes me feel good that we contributed to that.""

""His daring vision and design brilliance reshaped the field of architecture and our contemporary world. Gehry showed us how powerful and transformative museum architecture can be,""

Frank Gehry, a Pritzker Prize-winning architect, died at 96 in Santa Monica after a respiratory illness. He became renowned for luminescent, curvilinear structures and early adoption of computer-driven design. His postmodern museums, concert halls, and libraries often became tourist destinations as well as cultural venues. The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, opened in 1997, is widely regarded as a masterpiece of 20th-century architecture and helped revitalize its city. Gehry expressed pride in the building's impact, noting a renewed feeling of life around it and that he felt good to have contributed. The Guggenheim credited his daring vision with reshaping contemporary architecture.

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