Frank Gehry, legendary American architect, dies aged 96 | Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry, one of American architecture’s most influential and distinctive talents, died Friday at his home in Los Angeles after a brief respiratory illness, his chief of staff confirmed. New York Times. He was 96 years old.

The best-known American architect since Frank Lloyd Wright, Gehry was one of the first architects to embrace the potential of computer design, pioneering his distinctive exuberant style of bold and bold force, whimsical and arresting collisions of form. His most famous work is the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, a fantastic, titanium-clad composition on the Nervión River. Gaining international acclaim upon its opening in 1997, it heralded a new era in emotional architecture.

The project gave its name to a phenomenon (the Bilbao effect) in which decaying old cities seek to spur revitalization with spectacular architecture, becoming, as Guardian critic Rowan Moore put it in 2019, “a symbol of what might be called iconic architecture.”

Other famous works include the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, completed in 2003; Miami’s New World Center, a concert hall completed in 2011; and the Fondation Louis Vuitton, a spiritual museum in Paris completed in 2014.

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