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Also Known As Frank Owen Gehry • Frank O. Gehry • Ephraim Owen Goldberg
Born February 28, 1929 • Toronto • Canada
Died December 5, 2025 (aged 96) • Santa Monica • California
Awards And Honors Presidential Medal of Freedom (2016) • National Medal of Arts (1998) • Praemium Imperiale (1992) • Pritzker Prize (1989)

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Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry: Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum
Frank Gehry: American Center
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, designed by Frank Gehry, featuring curving, metallic silver panels and angular forms at a city intersection.
Frank Gehry: Jay Pritzker Pavilion
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao features curving, metallic walls and abstract shapes beside a river, with people walking along the promenade in front.
Frank O. Gehry: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College features a dramatic, sculptural silver metal roof with sweeping curves, set amid green lawns and trees.
Cincinnati, University of
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Richard Meier: Atheneum
Richard Meier
American architect
I.M. Pei
I.M. Pei
Chinese-born American architect
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Marcel Breuer
Hungarian architect
McIntire, Samuel: Derby Summer House
Samuel McIntire
American architect and craftsman
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Jacques Herzog
Swiss architect
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Pierre de Meuron
Swiss architect
Álvaro Siza: Bouça social housing complex
Álvaro Siza
Portuguese architect
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Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Brazilian architect
Norman Foster: 30 St Mary Axe
Norman Foster
British architect
Robert Adam, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Robert Adam
Scottish architect
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Scottish architect and designer
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Edward Godwin
British architect and writer
Webb, Philip Speakman: Red House
Philip Speakman Webb
British architect
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American architect
Eero Saarinen in a womb chair
Eero Saarinen
American architect
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, Calif., by Louis I. Kahn, 1959–65
Louis Kahn
American architect
Jean Nouvel
Jean Nouvel
French architect
Rafael Moneo: Prado Museum addition
Rafael Moneo
Spanish architect
Philip Johnson: AT&T Building
Philip Johnson
American architect
Gordon Bunshaft, c. 1950s.
Gordon Bunshaft
American architect

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