El arquitecto frank gehry biography

February 28, 1929 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Architect

Over the years many adjectives have been used to describe Frank Gehry's creations, including edgy, forward-looking, astonishing, and weird. Anything but ordinary, Gehry challenged the mainstream in the 1970s and 1980s when he used everyday materials such as cardboard to make furniture, and chain-link fencing to construct buildings.

Collectors sought his whimsical lamps and chairs, and Gehry-designed office buildings and homes were scattered in cities all over the world, but the maverick architect did not achieve real fame until the late 1990s. The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, unveiled by Gehry in 1997, made him a celebrity at the age of sixty-eight.

Since then, countless urban commissions have come Gehry's way, and he is considered to be one of the most important and innovative architects of the twenty-firs