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56-556: The original building was a small structure that welcomed visitors until there was a move to a much larger structure designed by Frank Gehry in 1981. The 2004 expansion was designed by Barton Phelps & Associates. The aquarium began in 1935 as a collection of marine specimens stored in the Cabrillo Beach Bathhouse. In 1949, John Olguin , captain of the Cabrillo Beach lifeguards, was appointed director of

112-539: A dozen honorary university degrees (see #Honorary doctorates ). In February 2017, MasterClass announced an online architecture course taught by Gehry that was released that July. Gehry has been involved in exhibition designs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art dating back to the 1960s. In 1965, Gehry designed the exhibition display for the "Art Treasures of Japan" exhibition at the LACMA. This

168-594: A new level of international acclaim when the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opened in Bilbao , Spain. Hailed by The New Yorker as a "masterpiece of the 20th century", and by legendary architect Philip Johnson as "the greatest building of our time", the museum became famous for its striking yet aesthetically pleasing design and its positive economic effect on the city. Since then, Gehry has regularly won major commissions and established himself as one of

224-684: A phased expansion. A 21,000-square-foot (2,000 m) two-story addition houses wet labs, offices, and the Moore Research Library. A fiberglass sculptural screen fronts the expanded complex. Frank Gehry Frank Owen Gehry CC FAIA ( / ˈ ɡ ɛər i / GAIR -ee ; né   Goldberg ; born February 28, 1929) is a Canadian-born American architect and designer. A number of his buildings , including his private residence in Santa Monica, California , have become attractions . His works are considered among

280-589: A practice in Los Angeles that became Frank Gehry and Associates in 1967, then Gehry Partners in 2001. His earliest commissions were in Southern California, where he designed a number of innovative commercial structures such as Santa Monica Place (1980) and residential buildings such as the eccentric Norton House (1984) in Venice, California. Among these works, Gehry's most notable design may be

336-519: Is also a sophisticated classical artist who knows European art history and contemporary sculpture and painting. After the phenomenal success of Gehry's design for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao , Spain, critics began referring to the economic and cultural revitalization of cities through iconic, innovative architecture as the "Bilbao effect". In the first 12 months after the museum was opened, an estimated US$ 160 million were added to

392-755: Is an award and title created by the United States Congress in 1984, for the purpose of honoring artists and patrons of the arts . A prestigious American honor, it is the highest honor given to artists and arts patrons by the United States government. Nominations are submitted to the National Council on the Arts, the advisory committee of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), who then submits its recommendations to

448-498: Is consistent with the California " funk " art movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, which featured the use of inexpensive found objects and nontraditional media such as clay to make serious art. His works always have at least some element of deconstructivism ; he has been called "the apostle of chain-link fencing and corrugated metal siding". However, a retrospective exhibit at New York's Whitney Museum in 1988 revealed that he

504-698: The Bois de Boulogne park in Paris, France, which opened to some rave reviews. Also in 2014, Gehry was commissioned by River LA (formerly the Los Angeles River Revitalization Corporation ), a nonprofit group founded by the city of Los Angeles in 2009 to coordinate river policy, to devise a wide-ranging new plan for the river. In February 2015, the new AU$ 180 million building for the University of Technology Sydney

560-580: The California Museum of Science and Industry in Los Angeles. In 1989, Gehry received the Pritzker Architecture Prize , where the jury described him: "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. His buildings are juxtaposed collages of spaces and materials that make users appreciative of both

616-591: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra , which was performed in November of that year. In addition to architecture, Gehry has made a line of furniture for Knoll and for Heller Furniture , jewelry for Tiffany & Co. , various household items, sculptures, and even a glass bottle for Wyborowa Vodka . His first line of furniture, produced from 1969 to 1973, was called " Easy Edges ", constructed out of cardboard . Another line of furniture released in

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672-573: The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden (1986). Gehry has previously collaborated with luxury jewelry company Tiffany & Co., creating six distinct jewelry collections: the Orchid, Fish, Torque, Equus, Axis, and Fold collections. In addition to jewelry, Gehry designed other items, including a distinctive collector's chess set and a series of tableware items, including vases, cups, and bowls for the company. In 2004, Gehry designed

728-780: The Museum of Pop Culture (2000) in Seattle , Washington; commercial buildings such as the IAC Building (2007) in New York City; and residential buildings, such as Gehry's first skyscraper, the Beekman Tower at 8 Spruce Street (2011) in New York City. Gehry's recent major international works include the Dr Chau Chak Wing Building at the University of Technology Sydney , completed in 2014, and

784-648: The Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1989, considered the field's highest honor. He has also been awarded the National Medal of Arts and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in the United States. Gehry's influence extends beyond architecture; he has designed furniture, jewelry, and liquor bottles. Gehry was born Frank Owen Goldberg on February 28, 1929, in Toronto , Ontario, to parents Sadie Thelma (née Kaplanski/Caplan) and Irving Goldberg. His father

840-600: The United States Army . In the fall of 1956, he moved his family to Cambridge, Massachusetts , where he studied city planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design . He left before completing the program, disheartened and "underwhelmed". His progressive ideas about socially responsible architecture were under-realized, and the final straw occurred when he sat in on a discussion of one professor's "secret project in progress"—a palace that he

896-733: The University of California at Los Angeles , the University of Toronto , Columbia University , the Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich , and at Yale University , where he still teaches as of 2017. Though he is often referred to as a " starchitect ", he has repeatedly expressed his disdain for the term, insisting he is only an architect. Steve Sample , President of the University of Southern California , told Gehry that "...After George Lucas , you are our most prominent graduate". As of December 2013 , Gehry has received over

952-887: The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris. These buildings are characterized by their sculptural, often undulating exteriors and innovative use of materials such as titanium and stainless steel. Born in Toronto, Gehry moved to Los Angeles in 1947 and established his architectural practice there in 1962. He rose to prominence in the 1970s with his distinctive style that blended everyday materials with complex, dynamic structures. Gehry's approach to architecture has been described as deconstructivist, though he himself resists categorization. Throughout his career, Gehry has received numerous awards and honors, including

1008-645: The White House for the President of the United States to award. The medal was designed for the NEA by sculptor Robert Graham . In 1983, prior to the official establishment of the National Medal of Arts, through the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities , President Ronald Reagan awarded a medal to artists and arts patrons. The National Medal of Arts was first awarded in 1985. The ceremony

1064-520: The Basque economy. Indeed, over $ 3.5 billion have been added to the Basque economy since the building opened. In subsequent years there have been many attempts to replicate this effect through large-scale eye-catching architectural commissions that have been both successful and unsuccessful, such as Daniel Libeskind 's expansion of the Denver Art Museum and buildings by Gehry himself, such as

1120-752: The Chau Chak Wing, with its 320,000 bricks in "sweeping lines", described as "10 out of 10" on a scale of difficulty. An ongoing project is the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi on Saadiyat Island in the United Arab Emirates. Other significant projects such as the Mirvish Towers in Toronto, and a multi-decade renovation of the Philadelphia Museum of Art , are currently in the design stage. In October 2013, Gehry

1176-1232: The Grand Avenue Project, a concert hall for the Youth Orchestra Los Angeles , and an office building for Warner Bros. , The Architect's Newspaper stated that "Seventy-four years after he moved there from his native Toronto, L.A. is looking more and more like Gehry Country." Said to "defy categorisation", Gehry's work reflects a spirit of experimentation coupled with a respect for the demands of professional practice, and has remained largely unaligned with broader stylistic tendencies or movements. With his earliest educational influences rooted in modernism , Gehry's work has sought to escape modernist stylistic tropes while remaining interested in some of its underlying transformative agendas. Continually working between given circumstances and unanticipated materializations, he has been assessed as someone who "made us produce buildings that are fun, sculpturally exciting, good experiences", although his approach may become "less relevant as pressure mounts to do more with less". Gehry's style at times seems unfinished or even crude, but his work

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1232-921: The LACMA, followed soon after by the "German Expressionist Sculpture Exhibition" in 1983. In 1991–92, Gehry designed the installation of the landmark exhibition "Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany", which opened at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and traveled to the Art Institute of Chicago , the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and the Altes Museum in Berlin. Gehry

1288-890: The Motorcycle" exhibition opened at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum with its installation designed by Gehry. This exhibition subsequently traveled to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Guggenheim Las Vegas . In 2014, he curated an exhibition of photography by his close friend and businessman Peter Arnell that ran from March 5 through April 1 at Milk Studios Gallery in Los Angeles. In 1983, Gehry created

1344-660: The National Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, DC has had numerous delays during the approval process with the United States Congress , it was finally approved in 2014 with a modified design. In 2014, two significant, long-awaited museums designed by Gehry opened: the Biomuseo , a biodiversity museum in Panama City , Panama; and the Fondation Louis Vuitton , a modern art museum in

1400-529: The S. Mark Taper Foundation Courtyard, an Aquatic Nursery research lab and the Virginia Reed Moore Research Library. In October 2010, it celebrated its 75-year anniversary. The COVID-19 pandemic hit the aquarium hard, with them losing many staff and members. But throughout the pandemic, while they were closed, they renovated multiple sections of the aquarium. The original one-story, 23,000-square-foot (2,100 m) facility

1456-595: The United States, settling in California. He got a job driving a delivery truck and studied at Los Angeles City College . He went on to graduate from the University of Southern California 's School of Architecture. During that time, he became a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi . According to Gehry, "I was a truck driver in L.A., going to City College, and I tried radio announcing, which I wasn't very good at. I tried chemical engineering, which I wasn't very good at and didn't like, and then I remembered. You know, somehow I just started wracking my brain about, 'What do I like?' Where

1512-506: The almost universally well-received Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the more controversial Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle. Though some link the concept of the Bilbao effect to the notion of starchitecture, Gehry has consistently rejected the label of a starchitect . Though much of Gehry's work has been well-received, its reception was not always positive. Art historian Hal Foster reads Gehry's architecture as, primarily, in

1568-583: The first Fish Lamps were fabricated between 1984 and 1986. They employed wire armatures molded into fish shapes, onto which shards of plastic laminate ColorCore are individually glued. Since the creation of the first lamp in 1984, the fish has become a recurrent motif in Gehry's work, most notably in the Fish Sculpture at La Vila Olímpica del Poblenou in Barcelona (1989–92) and Standing Glass Fish for

1624-464: The most important of contemporary architecture in the 2010 World Architecture Survey , leading Vanity Fair to call him "the most important architect of our age". He is also the designer of the National Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial . Gehry is known for his postmodern designs and use of bold, unconventional forms and materials. His most famous works include the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain,

1680-414: The museum. He popularized the aquarium by giving impromptu tours to visiting school groups as well as starting the popular evening program of viewing and learning about the bizarre grunion mating practices on the beach. On October 21, 1981, the new $ 3 million, Frank Gehry –designed museum opened and the old museum closed. Throughout the 1990s, the museum experienced significant growth and in 1993 its name

1736-547: The official trophy for the World Cup of Hockey . He redesigned the trophy for the next tournament in 2016. He has collaborated with American furniture manufacturer Emeco on designs such as the 2004 "Superlight" chair. In 2014, Gehry was one of the six "iconoclasts" selected by French fashion house Louis Vuitton to design a piece using their iconic monogram pattern as part of their "Celebrating Monogram" campaign. National Medal of Arts The National Medal of Arts

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1792-725: The open-air Jay Pritzker Pavilion (2004) in Chicago 's Millennium Park ; and the understated New World Center (2011) in Miami Beach , which the LA Times called "a piece of architecture that dares you to underestimate it or write it off at first glance." His other notable works include academic buildings such as the Stata Center (2004) at MIT , and the Peter B. Lewis Library (2008) at Princeton University ; museums such as

1848-598: The over 2,000 sq ft (190 m ) "David Cabin" shows features that were to become synonymous with Gehry's later work, including beams protruding from the exterior sides, vertical-grain douglas fir detail, and exposed unfinished ceiling beams. It also shows strong Asian influences, stemming from his earliest inspirations, such as the Shosoin treasure house in Nara , Japan. In 1961, Gehry moved to Paris, where he worked for architect Andre Remondet. In 1962, he established

1904-632: The renovation of his own Santa Monica residence. Originally built in 1920 and purchased by Gehry in 1977, it features a metallic exterior wrapped around the original building that leaves many of the original details visible. Gehry still resides there. Other of Gehry's buildings completed during the 1980s include the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium (1981) in San Pedro , and the California Aerospace Museum (1984) at

1960-459: The service of corporate branding . Criticism of his work includes complaints over design flaws that the buildings waste structural resources by creating functionless forms, do not seem to belong in their surroundings or enhance the public context of their locations, and are apparently designed without taking into account the local climate. Moreover, socialist magazine Jacobin pointed out that Gehry's work can be summed up as architecture for

2016-402: The spring of 1992 is " Bentwood Furniture ". Each piece is named after a different hockey term. He was first introduced to making furniture in 1954 while serving in the U.S. Army , where he designed furniture for the enlisted soldiers. In many of his designs, Gehry is inspired by fish. "It was by accident I got into the fish image", claimed Gehry. One thing that sparked his interest in fish

2072-543: The stage design for Lucinda Childs ' dance Available Light , set to music by John Adams . It premiered at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles at the "Temporary Contemporary", and was subsequently seen at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera House in New York City and the Theatre de la Ville in Paris. The set consisted of two levels angled in relation to each other, with a chain-link backdrop. The piece

2128-591: The super-wealthy, in the sense that it is expensive, not resourceful, and does not serve the interests of the overwhelming majority. The article criticized Gehry's statement, "In the world we live in, 98 percent of what gets built and designed today is pure shit". In January 2011, Gehry joined the University of Southern California (USC) faculty, as the Judge Widney Professor of Architecture. He has since continued in this role at his alma mater. He has also held teaching positions at Harvard University ,

2184-737: The theatre and the back-stage, simultaneously revealed." Gehry continued to design other notable buildings in California, such as the Chiat/Day Building (1991) in Venice, in collaboration with Claes Oldenburg , which is well known for its massive sculpture of binoculars. He also began receiving larger national and international commissions, including his first European commission, the Vitra International Furniture Manufacturing Facility and Design Museum in Germany, completed in 1989. It

2240-427: The world's most notable architects. His best-received works include several concert halls for classical music. The boisterous, curvaceous Walt Disney Concert Hall (2003) in downtown Los Angeles is the centerpiece of the neighborhood's revitalization; the Los Angeles Times called it "the most effective answer to doubters, naysayers, and grumbling critics an American architect has ever produced". Gehry also designed

2296-508: Was I? What made me excited? And I remembered art, that I loved going to museums and I loved looking at paintings, loved listening to music. Those things came from my mother, who took me to concerts and museums. I remembered Grandma and the blocks, and just on a hunch, I tried some architecture classes." Gehry graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California in 1954. He then spent time away from architecture in numerous other jobs, including service in

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2352-438: Was appointed joint architect with Foster + Partners to design the High Street phase of the development of Battersea Power Station in London, Gehry's first project there. In recent years, some of Gehry's more prominent designs have failed to go forward. In addition to unrealized designs for the Corcoran Art Gallery expansion in Washington, DC, and a new Guggenheim museum near the South Street Seaport in New York City, Gehry

2408-446: Was asked to design an exhibition on the work of Alexander Calder at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Resnick Pavilion, again invited by the museum's curator Stephanie Barron. The exhibition began on November 24, 2013, and ran through July 27, 2014. In addition to his long-standing involvement with exhibition design at the LACMA, Gehry has also designed numerous exhibition installations with other institutions. In 1998, "The Art of

2464-538: Was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Russian Jewish parents, and his mother was a Polish Jewish immigrant born in Łódź . A creative child, he was encouraged by his grandmother, Leah Caplan, with whom he built little cities out of scraps of wood. With these scraps from her husband's hardware store, she entertained him for hours, building imaginary houses and futuristic cities on the living room floor. Gehry's use of corrugated steel , chain-link fencing , unpainted plywood , and other utilitarian or "everyday" materials

2520-411: Was built 1 foot (0.30 m) taller than the nearby Trump Building , which until then was New York City's tallest residential building. Notable Gehry-designed buildings completed in the 2020s include the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, DC and the LUMA Arles museum in France. In 2021, noting Gehry's progress on an increasing number of significant projects in his hometown, including

2576-425: Was changed from Cabrillo Marine Museum to the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium to highlight its living collections. It expanded its public programs sector and added an Ocean Outreach Education program, a discovery lab, and a child volunteer program named Sea Rangers. They also created a non-profit, called the Friends of the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, to assist in funding. In 2004, the facility expanded with an Exploration Center,

2632-400: Was designed by Frank Gehry & Associates. It features indoor and outdoor exhibit spaces, an auditorium, wet laboratories and offices around a central open space wrapped in chain-link fencing. Free-standing tanks served by exposed electrical and plumbing systems openly display mechanical functions. In 2000, Los Angeles commissioned Barton Phelps & Associates to prepare a master plan for

2688-502: Was designing for right-wing Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista (1901–1973). Gehry returned to Los Angeles to work for Victor Gruen Associates , with whom he had apprenticed while at USC. In 1957, at age 28, he was given the chance to design his first private residence with friend and old classmate Greg Walsh . Construction was done by another neighbor across the street from his wife's family, Charlie Sockler. Built in Idyllwild, California for his wife Anita's family neighbor Melvin David,

2744-402: Was followed soon after by the exhibition design for the "Assyrian Reliefs" show in 1966 and the "Billy Al Bengston Retrospective" in 1968. The LACMA then had Gehry design the installation for the "Treasures of Tutankhamen" exhibition in 1978 followed by the "Avant-Garde in Russia 1910–1930" exhibition in 1980. The subsequent year, Gehry designed the exhibition for "Seventeen Artists in the '60s" at

2800-434: Was not held in 2021 or 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic therefore the 2021 recipients were given the award in 2023. In 1989, composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein refused his award, allegedly due to how a federal grant to an art show on AIDS had been revoked. In 1992, composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim refused his award, claiming that the NEA had "become a victim of its own and others' political infighting and

2856-425: Was notoriously dropped by developer Bruce Ratner from the Pacific Park (Brooklyn) redevelopment project, and in 2014 as the designer of the World Trade Center Performing Arts Center in New York City. Some stalled projects have recently shown progress: After many years and a dismissal, Gehry was recently reinstated as architect for the Grand Avenue Project in Los Angeles, and though his controversial design of

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2912-563: Was officially opened, whose façade has more than 320,000 hand-placed bricks and glass slabs. Gehry said he would not design a building like the "crumpled paper bag" again. Gehry told the French newspaper La Croix in November 2016 that President of France François Hollande had assured him he could relocate to France if Donald Trump was elected President of the United States . The following month, Gehry said that he had no plans to move. Trump and he exchanged words in 2010 when Gehry's 8 Spruce Street , originally known as Beekman Tower ,

2968-526: Was partly inspired by spending Saturday mornings at his grandfather's hardware store. He spent time drawing with his father, and his mother introduced him to the world of art. "So the creative genes were there", Gehry says. "But my father thought I was a dreamer, I wasn't gonna amount to anything. It was my mother who thought I was just reticent to do things. She would push me." He was given the Hebrew name "Ephraim" by his grandfather, but used it only at his bar mitzvah . In 1947, Gehry's family immigrated to

3024-422: Was revived in 2015, and was performed, among other places, in Los Angeles and Philadelphia, where it was presented by FringeArts , which commissioned the revival. In 2012, Gehry designed the set for the Los Angeles Philharmonic 's opera production of Don Giovanni , performed at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. In April 2014, Gehry designed a set for an "exploration of the life and career of Pierre Boulez " by

3080-433: Was soon followed by other major commissions including the Frederick Weisman Museum of Art (1993) in Minneapolis , Minnesota; the Cinémathèque Française (1994) in Paris, originally The American Center in Paris; and the Dancing House (1996) in Prague . From 1994 to 1996 a couple buildings by Gehry for a Public housing project were realized in Goldstein, part of Frankfurt-Schwanheim (1994) In 1997, Gehry vaulted to

3136-408: Was the fact that his colleagues were recreating Greek temples. He said, "Three hundred million years before man was fish....if you gotta go back, and you're insecure about going forward...go back three hundred million years ago. Why are you stopping at the Greeks? So, I started drawing fish in my sketchbook, and then I started to realize that there was something in it." As a result of his fascination,

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