Frank Gehry#Works

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Frank Owen Gehry was born Frank Owen Goldberg on February 28, 1929, in Toronto, Ontario,{{Cite book |last=Filler |first=Martin |author-link=Martin Filler |url=https://archive.org/details/makersofmodernar0000unse |title=Makers of Modern Architecture |publisher=New York Review Books |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-59017-227-8 |page=170 |oclc=82172814 |url-access=registration}}{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/contemporaryarch00muri/ |title=Contemporary Architects |publisher=St. James Press |year=1994 |isbn=1-55862-182-2 |editor-last=Emanuel |editor-first=Muriel |edition=3rd |location= |pages=341–343 |oclc=30816307 |url-access=registration}} to parents Sadie Thelma (née Kaplanski/Caplan) and Irving Goldberg. His American father was born in New York City to Russian-Jewish parents, and his Polish-Jewish mother was an immigrant born in Łódź, Poland.Finding Your Roots, February 2, 2016, PBS{{cite news |author= Green, Peter S. |url= http://isurvived.org/InTheNews/JewishMuseum-Poland.html |title=In the News: Warsaw Jewish Museum In Poland |date=June 30, 2005|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=2011-08-30}}Gorin, Abbott (Spring 2015) [https://jewishcurrents.org/a-golden-age-of-jewish-architects/ "A Golden Age of Jewish Architects"] Jewish Currents. Retrieved 12 January 2020. A creative child, he was encouraged by his grandmother, Leah Caplan,Ouroussoff, Nicolai (October 25, 1998) [https://articles.latimes.com/1998/oct/25/magazine/tm-35829/2 "I'm Frank Gehry, and This Is How I See the World"]{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-oct-25-tm-35829-story.html Los Angeles Times Magazine with whom he built little cities out of scraps of wood.{{cite news| author=Templer, Karen |title=Frank Gehry| url=http://www.salon.com/1999/10/05/gehry/| newspaper =Salon| date=December 5, 1999 |access-date=2007-08-25}} 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 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."{{cite news |first1=Richard |last1=Lacayo |first2=Daniel S. |last2=Levy |title=Architecture: The Frank Gehry Experience |newspaper=Time |date=June 26, 2000 |volume=155 |issue=26 |page=64 |url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,997295,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130105190123/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C997295%2C00.html |archive-date=January 5, 2013 |access-date=March 22, 2015 |url-status=dead }}

He was given the Hebrew name "Ephraim" by his grandfather, but used it only at his bar mitzvah.{{Cite news |last1=Reinhart |first1=Anthony |date=2010-07-28 |title=Frank Gehry clears the air on fishy inspiration |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/frank-gehry-clears-the-air-on-fishy-inspiration/article4353512/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100731085207/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/frank-gehry-clears-the-air-on-fishy-inspiration/article1655311/ |archive-date=2010-07-31 |id={{ProQuest|2385608064}}}} In 1954, Gehry changed his surname from Goldberg to Gehry, after his then-wife Anita expressed concern about antisemitism.{{cite magazine |last=Verge |first=Stéphanie |date=July 2022 |title=Frank Talk |url=https://torontolife.com/real-estate/frank-gehry-has-a-few-things-to-get-off-his-chest/ |magazine=Toronto Life |quote=Gehry's a phony name—I changed it in 1954 because my ex-wife was worried about antisemitism and thought it sounded less Jewish. |quote-page=55}}

In 1947, Gehry's family immigrated to the United States, settling in California. He got a job driving a delivery truck and studied at Los Angeles City College.

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 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."{{cite web|url=https://www.achievement.org/achiever/frank-gehry/#interview|title=Biography and Video Interview of Frank Gehry at Academy of Achievement|website=www.achievement.org|publisher=American Academy of Achievement}}

Gehry went on to graduate from the University of Southern California's School of Architecture in 1954, where his professors included William Pereira.{{cite web |author=Hess, Alan |date=June 30, 2014 |title=Erasing Pereira |url=https://orangecoast.com/news/erasing-pereira |access-date=3 April 2025 |publisher=Orange Coast Magazine}} During that time, he became a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi.{{cite web |author=Engel, Eliot L. |date=August 2, 2013 |title=Congratulating the Alpha Epsilon Pi International Fraternity |url=https://votesmart.org/public-statement/804062/congratulating-the-alpha-epsilon-pi-international-fraternity |access-date=12 January 2020 |publisher=Capitol Words}}Schoenberg, Jeremy (January 18, 2011) [https://news.usc.edu/28496/architect-frank-gehry-named-judge-widney-professor/ "Architect Frank Gehry Named Judge Widney Professor"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221023154758/https://news.usc.edu/28496/architect-frank-gehry-named-judge-widney-professor/ |date=October 23, 2022 }} USC News He then spent time away from architecture in numerous other jobs, including service in the United States Army. In the fall of 1956, he moved his family to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he studied city planning at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Gehry had always expressed an socialist philosophy for architecture, something that was influenced by political views as he expressed a more leftist attitude to the world. These progressive ideas about socially responsible architecture were under-realized and not respected by his professors at Harvard, leaving him to feel disheartened and "underwhelmed".{{cite book|last=Isenberg|first=Barbara|title=Conversations with Frank Gehry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d44jpzp3PzQC&pg=PA40|year=2012|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|pages=40–43|isbn=978-0-307-95972-0}} Gehry's distaste for the school culminated after he was invited by his architecture professor to engage in a discussion revolving around a "secret architectural project in progress." Which was ultimately revealed to Gehry as a palace that he was designing for Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.{{cite book|last=Chollet|first=Laurence B.|title=The Essential Frank O. Gehry|year=2001|publisher=The Wonderland Press|location=New York|isbn=0-8109-5829-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/essentialfrankog00laur/page/112 112]|url=https://archive.org/details/essentialfrankog00laur/page/112}}{{Cite web |last=Ray |first=Debika |date=2020-02-27 |title=As architect Frank Gehry turns 90 years old we look back at his prolific career |url=https://www.iconeye.com/architecture/architect-frank-gehry-turns-90 |access-date=2024-12-19 |website=ICON Magazine |language=en-GB}}

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Gehry ultimately dropped out of his graduate program at Harvard University (where he studied urban planning) to start a furniture manufacturing company Easy Edges, which specialised in creating pieces with cardboard.{{Cite web |title=Gehry Talks Inspiration for Acclaimed Buildings {{!}} News {{!}} The Harvard Crimson |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/11/16/gehry-talks-design-event/ |access-date=2025-02-25 |website=www.thecrimson.com}}{{Cite web |last=Ray |first=Debika |date=2020-02-27 |title=As architect Frank Gehry turns 90 years old we look back at his prolific career |url=https://www.iconeye.com/architecture/architect-frank-gehry-turns-90 |access-date=2025-02-25 |website=ICON Magazine |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |last=Templer |first=Karen |date=1999-10-05 |title=Frank Gehry |url=https://www.salon.com/1999/10/05/gehry/ |access-date=2025-02-25 |website=Salon |language=en}}

He 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, the over {{convert|2,000|sqft|abbr=on}} "David Cabin"{{cite web| last= Sisson| first= Patrick| date= August 21, 2015| url= http://www.curbed.com/2015/8/21/9928242/21-first-drafts-frank-gehrys-david-cabin| title= 21 First Drafts: Frank Gehry's David Cabin| work= Curbed| access-date= January 6, 2017| archive-date= January 7, 2017| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170107095619/http://www.curbed.com/2015/8/21/9928242/21-first-drafts-frank-gehrys-david-cabin| url-status= dead}} 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 Shōsōin in Nara, Japan.

In 1961, Gehry moved to Paris, where he worked for architect Andre Remondet.Goldberger (2015), pp.110–111
Lazo, Caroline Evensen (2006) Frank Gehry. Twenty-First Century Books
Hawthorne, Christopher (October 8, 2014) [https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-paris-passion-for-all-things-gehry-20141008-column.html "In Paris, a Passion for All Things Frank Gehry"] Los Angeles Times In 1962, he established a practice in Los Angeles that became Frank Gehry and Associates in 1967, then Gehry Partners in 2001.[http://www.foga.com/ Gehry Partners, LLP website] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219203901/http://www.foga.com/ |date=December 19, 2013 }} 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, Los Angeles.{{cite web|last= Molloy| first= Jonathan C.|url=http://www.archdaily.com/337607/ad-classic-norton-house-frank-gehry/ |title=AD Classic: Norton House / Frank Gehry |website= ArchDaily.com |date=February 28, 2013 |access-date=2013-05-25}}

Among these works, Gehry's most notable design may be the renovation of his own Santa Monica residence.{{cite news| last= Head| first= Jeffrey |date= October 21, 2009| url= http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/home_blog/2009/10/frank-gehry-the-houses-book-review-new-frank-gehry-book.html | title= Frank Gehry: The Houses| work= Los Angeles Times}} 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.{{cite web |url= http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Gehry_House.html |title=Gehry House – Frank Gehry|publisher=Great Buildings Collection |access-date= 2010-06-03}} 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 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 the theatre and the back-stage, simultaneously revealed."{{cite web| url= http://www.pritzkerprize.com/1989/jury |title= Jury Citation: Frank Gehry: 1989 Laureate| website= pritzkerprize.com| publisher= Pritzker Architecture Prize| year= 1989| access-date= March 8, 2017}}

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 was soon followed by other major commissions including the Frederick Weisman Museum of Art{{cite web| url= http://www.weisman.umn.edu/architecture/arch.html| title= Modeling the museum for 17 years| first= Hailey| last= Colwell| website= Weisman.UMN.edu| publisher= The Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, University of Minnesota| date= August 5, 2015| access-date= March 8, 2017| url-status= dead| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060510153155/http://www.weisman.umn.edu/architecture/arch.html| archive-date= May 10, 2006}} (1993) in Minneapolis, Minnesota; the Cinémathèque Française{{cite web| url= http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/americancenter/ |title= American Center, Paris| website= galinsky.com| date= 2010| access-date= March 8, 2017}}(1994) in Paris, originally The American Center in Paris;{{Cite web |title=Architect March 2010 Page 80 |url=https://lscpagepro.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?m=11050&i=35348&p=82&ver=html5 |access-date=2024-08-19 |website=lscpagepro.mydigitalpublication.com |language=en-US}} and the Dancing House{{cite web| url= http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/dancinghouse/index.htm |title= Dancing House| website= galinsky.com| date= 2006| access-date= March 8, 2017}} (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 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",{{cite news| last= Tyrnauer| first= Matt |author-link=Matt Tyrnauer|date= August 2010| url= https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/08/architecture-survey-201008 |title= Architecture in the Age of Gehry| work= Vanity Fair| access-date= March 27, 2012}} 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 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".{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,995369,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090909135523/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,995369,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 9, 2009| title=Windy City Redux| access-date=2008-07-30| date= October 11, 2004| last= Roston| first= Eric| magazine= Time}} Gehry also designed the open-air Jay Pritzker Pavilion (2004) in Chicago's Millennium Park;{{cite news| url= https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/disneyhall/la-et-cm-disney-hall-hawthorne-dto,0,4655702.htmlstory#axzz2mxQkKZKD|title=Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall is inextricably of L.A.|access-date=2013-12-09|date=September 21, 2013| last= Hawthorne| first= Christopher| newspaper= Los Angeles Times}} 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."{{cite news | url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-xpm-2011-jan-24-la-et-gehry-miami-review-20110124-story.html | title=Architecture review: Frank Gehry's New World Center in Miami Beach | last= Hawthorne| first= Christopher | newspaper= Los Angeles Times | date=January 24, 2011}}

His other notable works include academic buildings such as the Stata Center (2004){{cite web| url= http://web.mit.edu/facilities/construction/completed/stata.html |title= The Stata Center| publisher= Massachusetts Institute of Technology| website= MIT.edu| access-date= March 8, 2017}} at MIT, and the Peter B. Lewis Library (2008) at Princeton University;{{cite web| url= https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S22/11/40O68/index.xml?section=featured| title= Architect Gehry seeks to inspire with Princeton's Lewis Library design| date= September 11, 2008| first= Cass| last= Cliatt| access-date= March 8, 2017| url-status= dead| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170308002814/http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S22/11/40O68/index.xml?section=featured| archive-date= March 8, 2017| df= mdy-all}} museums such as the Museum of Pop Culture (2000) in Seattle, Washington;{{cite web |author=Staff| title=Experience Music Project| url=http://www.fodors.com/world/north-america/usa/washington/seattle/review-105822.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100818190523/http://www.fodors.com/world/north-america/usa/washington/seattle/review-105822.html |archive-date= August 18, 2010 |publisher=Fodors |access-date=2015-03-22}} commercial buildings such as the IAC Building (2007) in New York City;{{cite news | last= Ouroussoff| first= Nicolai | author-link=Nicolai Ouroussoff | title=Gehry's New York Debut: Subdued Tower of Light | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/22/arts/design/22dill.html?hp | newspaper= The New York Times | date=March 22, 2007| access-date=2007-08-25}} and residential buildings, such as Gehry's first skyscraper, the Beekman Tower at 8 Spruce Street (2011){{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/10/arts/design/10beekman.html| newspaper= The New York Times | first=Nicolai| last=Ouroussoff | author-link=Nicolai Ouroussoff| title=8 Spruce Street by the Architect Frank Gehry – Review| date=February 9, 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,{{cite web|title=UTS City Campus Master Plan|url=http://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/city-campus-master-plan/projects-progress|website=uts.edu.au|publisher=University of Technology Sydney|access-date=2014-08-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903024634/http://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/city-campus-master-plan/projects-progress|archive-date=September 3, 2014|url-status=dead}} and the Chau Chak Wing, with its 320,000 bricks in "sweeping lines", described as "10 out of 10" on a scale of difficulty.{{cite news|last1=Gilmore|first1=Heath|title=Frank Gehry's Sydney building sculpture revealed|url=https://www.smh.com.au/nsw/frank-gehrys-sydney-building-sculpture-revealed-20140829-109vfe.html| access-date= 2014-08-30| newspaper= The Sydney Morning Herald|date=August 30, 2014}} An ongoing project is the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi on Saadiyat Island in the United Arab Emirates.{{cite news|url=http://archrecord.construction.com/news/2011/01/110126_saadiyat_island_nouvel_gehry.asp |title=Projects by Nouvel and Gehry Finally Moving Forward on Saadiyat Island|newspaper=Architectural Record |date=January 26, 2011 |access-date=2011-08-30}} Other significant projects such as the Mirvish Towers in Toronto,{{cite news| author=Bozikovic, Alex|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/frank-gehry-and-david-mirvishs-tall-order-in-toronto/article15809360/?page=all |title=Frank Gehry and David Mirvish's Tall Order in Toronto |work=The Globe and Mail |date=December 7, 2013 |access-date=2013-12-08}} and a multi-decade renovation of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, are currently in the design stage. In October 2013, Gehry 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.{{cite web| title= Superstar Architects Gehry and Foster to design Battersea Power Station's High Street| url=http://www.primeresi.com/superstar-architects-gehry-and-foster-to-design-battersea-power-stations-high-street/24772/ | date=October 23, 2013|website= PrimeResi.com| access-date=2013-10-23}}

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 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.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/03/arts/music/questions-on-ground-zero-arts-center-left-unanswered.html |title=Arts Hub for All May Work for None |newspaper= The New York Times |date=December 7, 2013 |access-date=2013-12-08 |first=Anthony |last=Tommasini| author-link=Anthony Tommasini}} 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{{cite news| last=Pogrebin| first=Robin| author-link=Robin Pogrebin| title=Eisenhower as Barefoot Boy? Family Objects to a Memorial|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/arts/design/eisenhower-memorial-by-frank-gehry-draws-objections-from-family.html?pagewanted=all| newspaper= The New York Times |date=February 6, 2012}}{{cite news| last=Campbell| first=Robert| author-link=Robert Campbell (journalist)|title=Pressing Pause, for Cause, On the Eisenhower Memorial| url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2012/10/13/pressing-pause-for-cause-eisenhower-memorial/JaSFXQK3O8GX5GyOPzGKoL/story.html|newspaper=Boston Globe|date=October 13, 2012}}{{cite news|last=Kennicott|first=Philip| author-link=Philip Kennicott|title=Review: Frank Gehry's Eisenhower Memorial reinvigorates the genre|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/review-frank-gehrys-eisenhower-memorial-reinvigorates-the-genre/2011/12/13/gIQAAT4RwO_story.html| newspaper=The Washington Post| access-date=2012-04-24| date=December 17, 2011}} design of 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,{{cite web |url= http://www.visitpanama.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=312:biomuseo&Itemid=439&lang=en |title= The Biomuseo, the great works of Frank Gehry |website= VisitPanama.com |access-date= 2011-08-30 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120605154401/http://www.visitpanama.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=312:biomuseo&Itemid=439&lang=en |archive-date= June 5, 2012 |url-status= dead }} a biodiversity museum in Panama City, Panama; and the Fondation Louis Vuitton,{{cite news| url= http://www.collectortribune.com/2012/03/26/eliasson-show-due-to-open-pariss-louis-vuitton-museum/ |title=Eliasson show due to open Paris' Louis Vuitton museum |newspaper=Collector Tribune |date=March 26, 2012 |access-date=2012-10-21}}{{cite web |url=http://www.arcspace.com/architects/gehry/vuitton/vuitton.html |title=Foundation Louis Vuitton: Frank Gehry |website=arcspace.com |date=January 8, 2007 |access-date=2011-08-30 |archive-date=June 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120618212815/http://www.arcspace.com/architects/gehry/vuitton/vuitton.html |url-status=dead }}{{cite news|last=Riding |first=Alan |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/arts/design/03arna.html?_r=1 |title= Vuitton Plans a Gehry-Designed Arts Center in Paris |newspaper= The New York Times |date=October 3, 2006 |access-date= 2011-08-30}} a modern art museum in the Bois de Boulogne park in Paris, France. Both opened to generally positive reviews.{{cite news| last= Kennicott| first=Philip| author-link=Philip Kennicott|title=Gehry's Paris Coup| url=https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/09/frank-gehry-foundation-louis-vuitton-paris| newspaper=Vanity Fair| access-date=2014-10-24|date=September 2014}}{{Cite web |last=designboom |first=philip stevens I. |date=2014-02-13 |title=panama biomuseo by frank gehry ready for grand opening |url=https://www.designboom.com/architecture/panama-biomuseo-by-frank-gehry-ready-for-grand-opening-02-13-2014/ |access-date=2025-02-25 |website=designboom {{!}} architecture & design magazine |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Wainwright |first=Oliver |date=2014-10-21 |title=Frank Gehry's Fondation Louis Vuitton shows he doesn't know when to stop |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/21/frank-gehry-fondation-louis-vuitton-shows-he-doesnt-know-when-to-stop |access-date=2025-02-25 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

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.{{cite news| date= August 9, 2015| url= https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-et-la-river-notebook-20150809-story.html |title= Frank Gehry agreed to make over the L.A. River – with one big condition / How Frank Gehry's L.A. River make-over will change the city and why he took the job | last= Hawthorne| first= Christopher| newspaper= Los Angeles Times | access-date= March 8, 2017| url-status= live| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150813232723/http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-et-la-river-notebook-20150809-story.html| archive-date= August 13, 2015}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-la-river-gehry-20160613-snap-story.html|title=Frank Gehry's controversial L.A. River plan gets cautious, low-key rollout|date=2016-06-18|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2017-07-27|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035}}

In February 2015, the new AU$180 million building for the University of Technology Sydney 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.{{cite news|agency=Australian Associated Press|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/feb/02/frank-gehry-says-his-uts-crumpled-paper-bag-building-wont-be-repeated|title=Frank Gehry says his 'crumpled paper bag' building will remain a one-off|newspaper=The Guardian|date=February 2, 2015|access-date=2015-09-14}}

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.{{cite news| last= Dreyfus| first= Stéphane| date= November 4, 2016| url= http://www.la-croix.com/Culture/Frank-Gehry-lart-chitecte-2016-11-04-1200800773 | title= Frank Gehry, 'l'art-chitecte'| newspaper=La Croix}}{{cite web| last= Perlson| first= Hili | date= November 15, 2016| url= https://news.artnet.com/art-world/trump-elected-frank-gehry-emigrate-france-748415 | title= With Trump Elected, Frank Gehry Wants to Move to France| work= Artnet News}} The following month, Gehry said that he had no plans to move.{{cite news| last= La Rose| first= Lauren | date= December 3, 2016| url= http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/architect-frank-gehry-very-worried-about-donald-trump-1.3188585 |title= Architect Frank Gehry 'very worried' about Donald Trump| agency= The Canadian Press| website= ctvnews.ca| place= Toronto| access-date= March 8, 2017}} Trump and he exchanged words in 2010 when Gehry's 8 Spruce Street, originally known as Beekman Tower, was built {{convert|1|ft}} taller than the nearby Trump Building, which until then was New York City's tallest residential building.{{cite news| url= https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-donald-trump-frank-gehry-photo.html | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150814125100/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-donald-trump-frank-gehry-photo.html | url-status= dead | archive-date= 2015-08-14 |title= Donald Trump versus Frank Gehry| work= Los Angeles Times| date= 2016| access-date= March 8, 2017}}

Notable Gehry-designed buildings completed in the 2020s include the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, DC{{cite news| date= August 5, 2020| url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/the-new-eisenhower-memorial-is-stunning-especially-at-night-but-is-this-the-last-of-the-great-man-memorials/2020/08/05/100eb90a-d665-11ea-aff6-220dd3a14741_story.html |title= The new Eisenhower Memorial is stunning, especially at night. But is this the last of the 'great man' memorials? | last= Kennicott| first= Philip| newspaper= Washington Post | access-date= September 19, 2021}} and the LUMA Arles museum in France.{{cite news| date= June 28, 2021| url= https://www.archpaper.com/2021/06/luma-arles-opens-in-frank-gehry-polarizing-centerpiece-tower/ |title= Luma Arles opens in Provence with all eyes on Frank Gehry's polarizing centerpiece | last= Hickman| first= Matt| newspaper= The Architect's Newspaper | access-date= September 19, 2021}} In 2021, noting Gehry's progress on an increasing number of significant projects in his hometown, including 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."{{cite news| date= September 17, 2021| url= https://www.archpaper.com/2021/09/frank-gehry-los-angeles-only-now-coming-around-to-his-brand-of-wily-artistry/ |title= Frank Gehry moved to Los Angeles 75 years ago; it's only now coming around to his brand of wily artistry

| last= Volner| first= Ian| newspaper= The Architect's Newspaper | access-date= September 19, 2021}}

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.{{Cite news |last=Power |first=Julie |date=6 February 2015 |title=Frank Gehry: the Mad Hatter who transformed Sydney's skyline |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/frank-gehry-the-mad-hatter-who-transformed-sydneys-skyline-20150204-134rac.html |access-date=12 September 2017 |newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald}} 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 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.{{cite web |date=May 28, 2015 |title=Frank Owen Gehry |url=http://www.achille.paris/en/argus/designer/97 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151119154003/http://www.achille.paris/en/argus/designer/97 |archive-date=November 19, 2015 |access-date=2015-09-14 |publisher=achille.paris |df=mdy-all}} His works always have at least some element of deconstructivism;{{cite web |date=29 March 2017 |title=The weird architectural world of Frank Gehry |url=https://www.worldbuild365.com/blog/the-weird-architectural-world-of-frank-gehry-TUB4hF |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402180540/https://www.worldbuild365.com/blog/the-weird-architectural-world-of-frank-gehry-TUB4hF |archive-date=April 2, 2019 |access-date=19 October 2018 |website=WorldBuild365 |language=en}} he has been called "the apostle of chain-link fencing and corrugated metal siding".Adams, B. (1988) "Frank Gehry's Merzbau". Art in America 76: pp.139–144 However, a retrospective exhibit at New York's Whitney Museum in 1988 revealed that he is also a sophisticated classical artist who knows European art history and contemporary sculpture and painting.

Frank Gehry has often described architecture as inherently sculptural, asserting, [https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=dADH1yXvyUkC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=frank+gehry&ots=nQlP5PpLOy&sig=wGF6yzGi9yJOQujpBx8IK-pg9c0#v=onepage&q=frank%20gehry&f=false “I always thought that architecture was, by definition, a three-dimensional object, therefore sculpture.”] This perspective reflects his commitment to blending artistic and architectural disciplines. Gehry’s early work with sculptors influenced his experimental approach, which includes deconstructing traditional architectural forms and embracing ideas of flow and defamiliarization, akin to [https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/fish-ichthyologist-viktor-shklovskys-diverse-achievement/ Viktor Shklovsky’s concept of “laying bare the device.”] Critics often describe his work as embodying structuralism rather than traditional formalism.

Gehry’s Jewish heritage and immigrant background have shaped his architectural philosophy. He often reinterprets traditional forms in ways that reflect his multicultural experience. His works have been described as embodying “a critique of consumerism” {{Cite book |last1=Isenberg |first1=Barbara S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cF5CivJnv2MC&dq=frank+gehry+facts&pg=PR9 |title=Conversations with Frank Gehry |last2=Gehry |first2=Frank O. |date=2009 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |isbn=978-0-307-26800-6 |language=en}}by defying expectations of luxury and focusing on creativity. For Gehry, architecture is not just about creating buildings but about crafting spaces that inspire and challenge societal norms.

A hallmark of Gehry’s style is his innovative use of materials. He challenges architectural norms by incorporating unconventional elements such as corrugated steel, chain-link fencing, and plywood. His works are celebrated for their “raw aesthetic”{{Cite book |last1=Isenberg |first1=Barbara S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cF5CivJnv2MC&dq=frank+gehry+facts&pg=PR9 |title=Conversations with Frank Gehry |last2=Gehry |first2=Frank O. |date=2009 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |isbn=978-0-307-26800-6 |language=en}} that combines everyday materials in unexpected ways, [https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=cF5CivJnv2MC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=frank+gehry+facts&ots=B65UYVLXqU&sig=lO85g4Hb9X7FbLCYNrd6uyJVS90#v=onepage&q&f=false creating structures that blur the line between functionality and artistry.] These material choices also reflect a critique of luxury, emphasizing creativity over opulence.

File:Former Rouse Headquaters.jpg| Former Rouse Headquarters in Columbia, Maryland (1974)

File:Merriweather Post Pavilion.jpg | Merriweather Post Pavillion in Columbia, Maryland (1967)

File:Barcelona Gehry Golden Fish 02.jpg|"El Peix", fish sculpture in front of the Port Olímpic in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (1992)

File:Case danzanti.jpg|Dancing House in Prague (1996)

File:Aerial view of EMPSFM.jpg|The Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle (2000)

File:Gehry-Tower office building Goethestrasse Reuterstrasse Mitte Hannover Germany.jpg|Gehry Tower in Hanover, Germany (2001)

File:Peter B. Lewis Bldg.JPG|Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (2002)

File:Disney Concert Hall by Carol Highsmith edit2.jpg|Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles (2003)

File:Bard College Fisher Center front view.jpg|Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (2003)

File:MIT Campus.jpg|Stata Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2004)

File:BP Bridge.jpg|BP Pedestrian Bridge, Millennium Park, Chicago (2004)

File:Herford MARTa 88.jpg|MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany (2005)

File:Elciego3.jpg|Hotel Marqués de Riscal in Elciego, Spain (2006)

File:Edificio IAC InterActiveCorp.JPG|The headquarters of IAC in Manhattan, New York City (2007)

File:AGO at dusk.jpg|Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (2008)

File:Gallery AfricanAmerican.jpg|Gallery of African American Art, Ohr-O'Keefe Museum Of Art campus in Biloxi, Mississippi (2010)

File:Dr Chau Chak Wing Building from The Goods Line (27438092220).jpg|Dr Chau Chak Wing Building in Sydney, Australia (2014)

File:Biomuseo panama.jpg|Biomuseo in Panama City (2014)

File:Frank Gehry - David Cabin, Idyllwild CA. 1957.jpg|David Cabin – Idyllwild CA (1957)

File:Dus Hafen2.JPG|Neuer Zollhof - Düsseldorf, Germany (1998)

File:Energie-Forum-Innovation Bad-Oeynhausen. Frank O. Gehry.jpg|Energie-Forum-Innovation in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany (1995)

File:Toledo Museum of Art Center for Visual Arts.jpg |Toledo Museum of Art Center for Visual Arts in Toledo, Ohio

File:Gehry Las Vegas.jpg|Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas (2010)

File:The Grand and Conrad DTLA.jpg| The Grand and Conrad hotel in Los Angeles

File:Bilbao - Guggenheim 43.jpg in Bilbao, Spain]]

The term "Bilbao Effect" emerged in urban planning to describe the transformative impact of Gehry’s architecture. His design for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, revitalized the city, serving as a prime example of how architecture can drive economic and cultural renewal. The museum’s dramatic curves and shimmering titanium panels are defining features of Gehry’s style, emphasizing movement and fluidity.{{Cite news |last=Moore |first=Rowan |date=2017-10-01 |title=The Bilbao effect: how Frank Gehry's Guggenheim started a global craze |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/oct/01/bilbao-effect-frank-gehry-guggenheim-global-craze |access-date=2025-02-25 |work=The Observer |language=en-GB |issn=0029-7712}}{{Cite web |title=The Bilbao Effect : How the Design of a Museum Transformed The Economy of The City |url=https://www.snaptrude.com/blog/the-bilbao-effect-how-the-design-of-a-museum-transformed-the-economy-of-the-city |access-date=2025-02-25 |website=www.snaptrude.com |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=2023-01-01 |title=How Frank Gehry Delivers On Time and On Budget |url=https://hbr.org/2023/01/how-frank-gehry-delivers-on-time-and-on-budget |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240906230759/https://hbr.org/2023/01/how-frank-gehry-delivers-on-time-and-on-budget |archive-date=September 6, 2024 |access-date=2025-02-25 |work=Harvard Business Review |url-status=live }}

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".{{cite news| author-link= Witold Rybczynski| last= Rybczynski| first= Witold | date= September 2002| title= The Bilbao Effect| url= https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/09/the-bilbao-effect/302582/| work= The Atlantic| access-date= March 8, 2017}} In the first 12 months after the museum was opened, an estimated US$160 million were added to the Basque economy. Indeed, over $3.5 billion have been added to the Basque economy since the building opened.{{cite news| url= http://jewishbusinessnews.com/2014/12/25/bilbaos-economy-purrs-from-effect-of-guggenheim-museum/ | work= Jewish Business News| title= Bilbao's Economy Purrs From Effect of Guggenheim Museum| first= Eli| last= Horn| date= December 25, 2014| access-date= March 8, 2017}} 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 the almost universally well-received Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the more controversial Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle.{{cite news| last= Rybczynski| first= Witold| date= November 22, 2008| url= https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122731149503149341 |title= When Buildings Try Too Hard| work= The Wall Street Journal}} Though some link the concept of the Bilbao effect to the notion of starchitecture, Gehry has consistently rejected the label of a starchitect.{{cite web|url= http://www.archdaily.com/455368/frank-gehry-i-m-not-a-starchitect/ |title= Frank Gehry: 'I'm Not a Starchitect' |website= Archdaily.com |date= December 8, 2013 |first= James |last= Taylor-Foster| access-date= 2013-12-08}}

Despite the complexity of his designs, Gehry’s approach to project management is highly disciplined. He has been praised for listening closely to clients and translating their needs into visionary designs. As one collaborator noted, “Sometimes he produces something for the client that they don’t realize they want because he listens so well.”{{Cite web |last=Flyvbjerg and Gardener |first=Bent and Dan |date=January–February 2023 |title=How Frank Gehry Delivers on Time and on Budget |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/367634810 }} Gehry himself credits curiosity as a cornerstone of his process, stating, “You’re being curious. And that curiosity leads to invention.” {{Cite book |last1=Gilbert-Rolfe |first1=Jeremy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dADH1yXvyUkC&dq=frank+gehry&pg=PR9 |title=Frank Gehry: The City and Music |last2=Gehry |first2=Frank O. |date=2002 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=978-0-415-23995-0 |language=en}}

Though much of Gehry's work has been well-received, its reception was not always positive. In 2014, Gizmodo's Geoff Manaugh called Gehry "the world's worst living architect," saying he is the "multi-billion dollar equivalent of a Salvador Dalí poster tacked to the wall in a stoned lacrosse player’s dorm room."{{Cite web |last=Manaugh |first=Geoff |date=2014-02-14 |title=Frank Gehry Is Still the World's Worst Living Architect |url=https://gizmodo.com/frank-gehry-is-still-the-worlds-worst-living-architect-1523113249 |access-date=2025-02-25 |website=Gizmodo |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=designboom |first=philip stevens I. |date=2014-02-13 |title=panama biomuseo by frank gehry ready for grand opening |url=https://www.designboom.com/architecture/panama-biomuseo-by-frank-gehry-ready-for-grand-opening-02-13-2014/ |access-date=2025-02-25 |website=designboom {{!}} architecture & design magazine |language=en}}

Art historian Hal Foster reads Gehry's architecture as, primarily, in the service of corporate branding.{{cite news |url= http://www.lrb.co.uk/v23/n16/hal-foster/why-all-the-hoopla |author= Foster, Hal |title= Why all the hoopla? |date=August 23, 2001 |newspaper= London Review of Books |volume= 23 |issue=16 |access-date= 2011-08-30}} 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.{{cite news |last=Favermann |first=Mark |date= November 7, 2007 |url= http://www.berkshirefinearts.com/?page=article&article_id=458&catID=26 |title= MIT Sues Architect Frank Gehry Over Flaws at Stata Center |newspaper= Berkshire Fine Arts |access-date= 2011-08-30}}Speck, Jeff (2012)Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time New York: North Point Press. pp.243–45. {{ISBN|978-0-86547-772-8}}{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-el-segundo-gehry-20170317-story.html|title=There's another Frank Gehry building going up in town. It's under the radar in El Segundo|first=Roger |last=Vincent|date= March 17, 2017|access-date=18 March 2017|newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}

Moreover, socialist magazine Jacobin pointed out that Gehry's work can be summed up as architecture for 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".{{cite news |last1=Cocotas |first1= Alex |title= Design for the one percent |url= https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/06/zaha-hadid-architecture-gentrification-design-housing-gehry-urbanism/ |newspaper= Jacobin |date= June 2016 |access-date= 7 June 2016}}

In January 2011, Gehry joined the University of Southern California (USC) faculty, as the Judge Widney Professor of Architecture.{{cite web |author= USC News |title= Architect Frank Gehry Named Judge Widney Professor (press release) |url= http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/architect_frank_gehry_named_judge_widney_professor.html |date= January 18, 2011 |access-date= 2011-01-18 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110122084702/http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/architect_frank_gehry_named_judge_widney_professor.html |archive-date= January 22, 2011 |df= mdy-all}} He has since continued in this role at his alma mater. He has also held teaching positions at Harvard University, 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.[http://architecture.yale.edu/faculty/frank-o-gehry "Frank O. Gehry"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218123105/http://architecture.yale.edu/faculty/frank-o-gehry |date=February 18, 2017 }} Yale School of Architecture website

Though he is often referred to as a "starchitect", he has repeatedly expressed his disdain for the term, insisting he is only an architect.{{cite news |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/architecture/frank-gehry-dont-call-me-a-starchitect-1842870.html |title= Frank Gehry: 'Don't Call Me a Starchitect' |newspaper= The Independent |date= December 17, 2009 |access-date= 2013-12-08 |archive-date= June 21, 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170621183522/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/architecture/frank-gehry-dont-call-me-a-starchitect-1842870.html |url-status= dead }} 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 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.{{cite news |author= Kaller, Hadlet |title= Now Anyone Can Take a Class with Frank Gehry |url= http://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/master-class-with-frank-gehry |date= February 17, 2017 |newspaper = Architectural Digest|access-date= 2017-03-18}}

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 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 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.Muchnic, Suzanne (February 6, 1992), [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-02-06-ca-1904-story.html "LACMA 'Degenerate' Exhibit to Make a Stop in Germany"] Los Angeles TimesWilson, William (February 15, 1991) [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-02-15-ca-1169-story.html "Revisiting the Unthinkable: Nazi Germany's 'Degenerate Art' Show at LACMA"] Los Angeles Times Gehry 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.Fleishman, Jeffrey (February 28, 2014) [https://web.archive.org/web/20140303104951/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-frank-gehry-calder-lacma-20140302,0,3478820,full.story "Frank Gehry and Alexander Calder, a captivating union at LACMA"] Los Angeles Times 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 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.{{cite news |url=http://blogs.artinfo.com/objectlessons/2014/03/10/when-architects-curate-frank-gehrys-peter-arnell-retrospective-at-milk-studios-has-a-personal-touch/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140415013631/http://blogs.artinfo.com/objectlessons/2014/03/10/when-architects-curate-frank-gehrys-peter-arnell-retrospective-at-milk-studios-has-a-personal-touch/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-04-15 |title=When Architects Curate: Frank Gehry's Peter Arnell Retrospective at Milk Studios | Object Lessons |publisher=Blouin Artinfo |access-date=2015-09-14 }}

In 1983, Gehry created 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.Lazar, Julie (1983) "Interview: Frank Gehry" in Available Light Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. {{ISBN|0-914357-01-8}} The piece was revived in 2015,Lazar, Julie (June 3, 2015) [https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/available-light-returns-to-the-stage-after-three-decades "'Available Light' Returns to the Stage After Three Decades"] KCET and was performed, among other places, in Los Angeles and Philadelphia, where it was presented by FringeArts, which commissioned the revival.[http://fringearts.com/event/available-light/#description "Available Light"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220161654/http://fringearts.com/event/available-light/#description |date=December 20, 2016 }} FringeArts

In 2003, Gehry designed the set for the American premiere of Janáček's opera Osud at the Gehry-designed Fisher Center at Bard College.{{cite web |last1=Midgette |first1=Anne |title=Opera review: Janacek's Search for Art in Real Life |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/29/arts/opera-review-janacek-s-search-for-art-in-real-life.html|work=The New York Times |date=July 29, 2003 |access-date=3 April 2025}}

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 the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which was performed in November of that year.{{cite web| author=Staff| date=April 23, 2014|url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwclassical/article/Architect-Frank-Gehry-to-Create-Set-Design-for-Chicago-Symphony-Orchestra-Focused-on-Pierre-Boulez-20140423#.U1x9fI57SxI |title=Architect Frank Gehry to Create Set Design for Chicago Symphony Orchestra Focused on Pierre Boulez|website=Broadway World|access-date=2015-09-14}}

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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 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 enlisted soldiers.{{Cite web |last=Templer |first=Karen |date=1999-10-05 |title=Frank Gehry |url=https://www.salon.com/1999/10/05/gehry/ |access-date=2025-02-25 |website=Salon |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2023-06-27 |title=West Los Angeles VA breaks ground on 374 units with help from Frank Gehry |url=https://www.dailynews.com/2023/06/27/west-los-angeles-va-breaks-ground-on-374-units-with-help-from-frank-gehry/ |access-date=2025-02-25 |website=Daily News |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Eng |first=Dinah |title=Architect Frank Gehry: How I Got Started |url=https://fortune.com/2018/10/26/frank-gehry-architect-interview/ |access-date=2025-02-25 |website=Fortune |language=en}}

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 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."Pollack, Sydney (dir.) (1985) American Masters: Sketches of Frank Gehry [https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/gehry_pop/fish.html (TV documentary)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170616132713/http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/gehry_pop/fish.html |date=June 16, 2017 }} PBS. access-date=2008-11-17

As a result of his fascination, 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 the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden (1986).[http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/frank-gehry--november-07-2013 "Frank Gehry: Fish Lamps, November 7 – December 21, 2013"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111140419/http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/frank-gehry--november-07-2013 |date=November 11, 2013 }} Gagosian Gallery, London

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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.{{cite web |url=https://gizmodo.com/5905941/frank-gehrys-tiffany-chess-set-is-a-miniature-architectural-marvel |title=Frank Gehry's Tiffany Chess Set Is a Miniature Architectural Marvel |website=Gizmodo |date=April 28, 2012 |access-date=2015-09-14 |archive-date=July 5, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170705203149/http://gizmodo.com/5905941/frank-gehrys-tiffany-chess-set-is-a-miniature-architectural-marvel |url-status=dead }}

In 2004, Gehry designed the official trophy for the World Cup of Hockey.{{cite news | title=Frank Gehry's World Cup of Hockey Trophy |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3888076 |access-date= 2014-10-24 |newspaper=The New York Times |first= Noah |last=Adams |date= September 3, 2004}} He redesigned the trophy for the next tournament in 2016.{{cite news|author=Seravalli, Frank| url=https://www.tsn.ca/world-cup-of-hockey-trophy-gets-facelift-1.574820 |title=World Cup of Hockey Trophy Gets a Facelift |newspaper=The Sports Network|access-date=2017-03-16}}

He has collaborated with American furniture manufacturer Emeco on designs such as the 2004 "Superlight" chair.{{Cite web |title=Superlight chair |url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/2005.168/ |access-date=2022-10-19 |website=SFMOMA |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Emeco Designers – Frank Gehry |url=https://www.emeco.net/about/design/frank-gehry |access-date=2022-10-19 |website=Emeco Industries Inc.}}

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.{{cite web |url= http://celebrating.monogram.lv/eng_US/ |title= Louis Vuitton: Celebrating Monogram Project |publisher= celebrating.monogram.lv| access-date= 2015-09-14}}

In 2015, Gehry designed his first yacht.{{cite news |title= Frank Gehry's First-Ever Yacht Looks Like Nothing You've Ever Seen |url= http://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/sporting/news/a3650/gehry-yacht-foggy/| access-date= 2015-10-13 |work= Town & Country |first= Vicky |last= Ward | author-link=Vicky Ward|date= October 5, 2015}}

In 2020, Gehry designed a limited edition bottle of Hennessy cognac.{{cite news |title= Frank Gehry forges crinkled gold bottle to mark 150th anniversary of Hennessy X.O |url= https://www.dezeen.com/2020/09/25/hennessy-x-o-150th-anniversary-frank-gehry-bottle/| access-date= 2021-09-19 |work= Dezeen |first= Tom |last= Ravenscroft | author-link=Vicky Ward|date= September 25, 2020}}

Gehry's firm was responsible for innovation in architectural software.{{cite news | title=New York Times: Frank Gehry's Software Keeps Buildings on Budget |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/business/11gehry.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 | access-date= 2012-12-13 |newspaper= The New York Times |first=Alec |last= Appelbaum | date= February 11, 2009}} His firm spun off another firm called Gehry Technologies that was established in 2002. In 2005, Gehry Technologies began a partnership with Dassault Systèmes to bring innovations from the aerospace and manufacturing world to AEC and developed Digital Project software, as well as GTeam software. In 2014, Gehry Technologies was acquired by software company Trimble Navigation.Ferro, Shaunacy (September 11, 2014), [http://www.fastcodesign.com/3035628/fast-feed/frank-gehrys-software-company-acquired Frank Gehry's Software Company Acquired] Fast Company. Its client list includes Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Herzog & de Meuron, Jean Nouvel, Coop Himmelb(l)au, and Zaha Hadid.

A naturalized U.S. citizen,{{Cite book |last=Phillips |first=Susan P. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IlONAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA205 |title=Displays!: Dynamic Design Ideas for Your Library Step by Step |publisher=McFarland |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-7864-8707-3 |pages=205 |language=en}} he also remains a citizen of Canada.LaRose, Lauren (December 3, 2016) [https://ipolitics.ca/2016/12/03/canadian-american-architect-frank-gehry-very-worried-about-donald-trump/ "Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry 'very worried' about Donald Trump"] iPolitics He lives in Santa Monica, California, and continues to practice out of Los Angeles.[https://archinect.com/gehry "Gehry Partners, LLP"] Archinect Having grown up in Canada, he is an avid fan of ice hockey. He began a hockey league, FOG (for Frank Owen Gehry), in his office, though he no longer plays with them.Goldberger (2015) In 2004, he designed the trophy for the World Cup of Hockey.Baurick, Tristan (May 13, 2004). "Architect's love of the game inspiration behind Cup trophy", Ottawa Citizen, p. C2.

Gehry is known for his occasional bad temper. During a trip to Oviedo, Spain to accept the Prince of Asturias Award in October 2014, he received a significant amount of attention, both positive and negative, for publicly flipping off a reporter at a press conference who accused him of being a "showy" architect.{{cite news |last= Schledahl |first=Peter |title= Frank Gehry's Digital Defiance |url= https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/frank-gehry-digital-defiance| access-date= October 27, 2014 |newspaper= The New Yorker |date= 2014-10-27}}{{cite news |last=McKenny |first= Leesha |title= Frank Gehry gives the finger in response to accusations of "showy architecture" | url= https://www.smh.com.au/nsw/frank-gehry-gives-the-finger-in-response-to-accusations-of-showy-architecture-20141027-11cbkg.html| access-date= 2014-10-27 |newspaper= Sydney Morning Herald |date= October 27, 2014}}

Gehry is a member of the California Yacht Club in Marina Del Rey, and enjoys sailing with his fiberglass-hulled yacht, Foggy.{{cite news |author= Browne, Alix |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/style/tmagazine/19boats.html| title=Love for Sail| newspaper= The New York Times| date= April 19, 2009 |access-date= 2015-09-14}}

In 2014, Gehry co-founded Turnaround Arts: California, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that expands access to the arts in under-resourced public elementary and middle schools across California.{{Cite news |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=2021-04-13 |title='What Would I Do?' Frank Gehry, 92, Is Too Busy to Retire |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/arts/design/frank-gehry.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3U4.vWi2.khdSuaNhw-83&smid=url-share |access-date=2025-03-12 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite magazine |last1=Gehry |first1=Frank |last2=Shriver |first2=Malissa Feruzzi |date=2020-12-21 |title=Our Kids Need Arts Education Now More Than Ever |url=https://time.com/5923031/arts-education/ |access-date=2025-03-12 |magazine=TIME |language=en}} In addition to serving as a board member for the organization, Gehry has served as a visiting artist with students.{{Cite news |last=Perrottet |first=Tony |date=2019-04-24 |title=At 90, Frank Gehry Is Juggling More Than Ever |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/at-90-frank-gehry-is-juggling-more-than-ever-11556109269 |access-date=2025-03-12 |work=Wall Street Journal |language=en-US |issn=0099-9660}} He also serves on the leadership council of the New York Stem Cell Foundation.{{cite web |url= https://nyscf.org/about-us/boards-councils/leadership-council |title= Leadership Council |publisher= New York Stem Cell Foundation |access-date= 2015-09-14 |archive-date= May 19, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150519041205/http://nyscf.org/about-us/boards-councils/leadership-council |url-status= dead }}

Gehry has also donated his time to design projects pro-bono. In 2014, he began pro-bono work with the L.A. River Revitalization Corp., a nonprofit group founded by the city, to develop the LA River Master Plan.{{cite news |last1=Hawthorne |first1=Christopher |title=Frank Gehry agreed to make over the L.A. River -- with one big condition |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=August 9, 2015}} In 2015, he unveiled his design, for which he waved his design fee, for the Children's Institute in Watts, an LA-based social services organization that provides services to families who have experienced violence and poverty.{{cite news |last1=Miranda |first1=Carolina |title=A Gehry First: The architect sets his sights on Watts in a pro-bono project that bridges his design skills and philanthropy. It was completed in 2022. |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=September 12, 2015}} The Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA), which is an educational center and performance space that provides free instruments, music training, and academic support to students from disadvantaged neighborhoods, was also designed pro-bono by Gehry and was completed in 2021.{{cite news |last1=Bernstein |first1=Fred |title=Frank Gehry Transforms a Former Bank Building in Inglewood for the Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles: The project marks the latest pro bono gig for the starchitect |work=Architectural Digest |publisher=Condé Nast |date=August 11, 2021}}

In 2004, Gehry voiced himself in an episode of the children's TV show Arthur, where he helped Arthur and his friends design a new treehouse.{{cite magazine |last=Booth |first=John |url= https://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/10/arthur/|title= The 15 Geekiest Episodes of PBS's Arthur |magazine= Wired |date= October 10, 2011| access-date=2013-08-14}} He also voiced himself in a 2005 episode of The Simpsons, "The Seven-Beer Snitch", where he designs a concert hall for the fictional city of Springfield. He has since said he regrets the appearance, as it included a joke about his design technique that has led people to misunderstand his architectural process.{{cite news |last=Chaban |first= Matt |title= Frank Gehry Really, Really Regrets His Guest Appearance on The Simpsons| url= https://observer.com/2011/09/frank-gehry-regrets-his-guest-appearance-the-simpsons/| access-date=2011-09-10 |newspaper= The New York Observer |date= September 5, 2011}}

In 2006, filmmaker Sydney Pollack made a documentary about Gehry's work, Sketches of Frank Gehry, which followed Gehry over five years and painted a positive portrait of his character; it was well-received critically.[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sketches_of_frank_gehry/ Sketches of Frank Gehry]. Rotten Tomatoes.

In 2009, architecture-inspired ice cream sandwich company Coolhaus named a cookie and ice cream combination after Gehry. Dubbed the "Frank Behry", it features Strawberries & Cream gelato and snickerdoodle cookies.{{cite news |url= http://fwx.foodandwine.com/food/how-construct-epic-ice-cream-sandwich-architect |title= How to Construct an Epic Ice Cream Sandwich Like an Architect |author= Staff |date= May 20, 2014 |newspaper= Food & Wine |access-date= 2014-10-29 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141029213048/http://fwx.foodandwine.com/food/how-construct-epic-ice-cream-sandwich-architect |archive-date= October 29, 2014 |df= mdy-all }}{{cite web |url= http://coolhaus.blogspot.com/2009/12/frank-behry-tribute-video.html |title= Frank Behry Tribute Video! |author= Coolhaus |date= December 2, 2009 |website= Blogspot |access-date= 2014-10-29|author-link= Coolhaus }}

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In October 2014, the first major European exhibition of Gehry's work debuted at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.{{cite news |title= An Architect's Big Parisian Moment Two Shows for Frank Gehry, as His Vuitton Foundation Opens |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/21/arts/design/two-shows-for-frank-gehry-as-his-vuitton-foundation-opens.html |access-date= 2014-10-24 |newspaper= The New York Times | first= Joseph |last= Giovannini |date= October 20, 2014}} Other museums and major galleries that have held exhibitions on Gehry's architecture and design include the Leo Castelli Gallery in 1983; and the Walker Art Center in 1986, whose exhibition then traveled to the Toronto Harbourfront Museum, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the LACMA and the Whitney Museum. Museums with exhibitions on Gehry's work have included the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (1992), the Gagosian Gallery (1984, 1992 and 1993), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2001), the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2002), the Jewish Museum in Manhattan (2010), and the Milan Triennale (first in 1988, then in 2010 with an exhibition entitled "Frank Gehry from 1997"), and LACMA (2015).{{cite web |url= http://www.lacma.org/node/21616#landing |title= Frank Gehry – LACMA |publisher= Los Angeles County Museum of Art |access-date= October 14, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151015050301/http://www.lacma.org/node/21616#landing |archive-date= October 15, 2015 |url-status= dead }}

Gehry participated in the 1980 Venice Biennale's La Strada Novissima installation. He also contributed to the 1985 Venice Biennale with an installation and performance named Il Corso del Coltello, in collaboration with Claes Oldenburg. His projects were featured in the 1996 event, and contributed to the 2008 event with the installation Ungapatchket.

In October 2015, 21 21 Design Sight in Tokyo held the exhibition Frank Gehry. I Have An Idea, curated by Japanese architect Tsuyoshi Tane.{{cite web |url=http://www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/2015/11/04/frank_gehry_i_have_an_idea.html |title= Frank Gehry: I have an idea |website= domusweb.it| publisher= Editoriale Domus Spa| first1= Rafael A. |last1= Balboa| first2= Federico| last2= Scaroni | date= November 4, 2015| access-date= March 8, 2017}}

In 2021, the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills held Spinning Tales, an exhibition of new fish sculptures by Gehry.{{cite news |url=https://www.archpaper.com/2021/07/frank-gehry-spinning-tales-new-sculptures-at-the-beverly-hills-gagosian-gallery/ |title= Frank Gehry's Spinning Tales shows off new sculptures at the Beverly Hills Gagosian gallery | publisher= The Architect's Newspaper| first= Shane | last= Reiner-Roth | date= July 7, 2021| access-date= September 19, 2021}}

• 1974: Fellow of the American Institute of Architects{{cite book |last1=Cohen |first1=Jean-Louis |title=Catalogue Raisonné of the Drawings |date=2020 |publisher=Cahiers d'art |location=Paris}}
• 1977: Arnold W. Brunner Prize in Architecture{{cite book |last1=Cohen |first1=Jean-Louis |title=Catalogue Raisonné of the Drawings |date=2020 |publisher=Cahiers d'art |location=Paris}}
• 1986: Distinguished Architect Award from the American Institute of Architects (Los Angeles Chapter){{cite book |last1=Dal Co |first1=Francesco |title=Frank O. Gehry: The Complete Works |date=2003 |publisher=Electaarchitecture ; Distributed by Phaidon Press |location=Milano, [London]}}
• 1987: Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Letters
• 1988: Elected into the National Academy of Design
• 1989: Pritzker Architecture Prize
• 1992: Praemium Imperiale
• 1994: The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize
• 1994: Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture
• 1995: American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award
• 1995: Chrysler Award of Innovation in Design{{cite book |last1=Dal Co |first1=Francesco |title=Frank O. Gehry: The Complete Works |date=2003 |publisher=Electaarchitecture ; Distributed by Phaidon Press |location=Milano, [London] |isbn=9781904313151, 1904313159}}
• 1998: National Medal of Arts{{cite web|url=http://www.nea.gov/honors/medals/medalists_year.html#98 |title=Lifetime Honors – National Medal of Arts |publisher=National Endowment for the Arts |access-date=2011-08-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110806021102/http://www.nea.gov/honors/medals/medalists_year.html |archive-date=2011-08-06 }}
• 1998: Inaugural Austrian Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts
• 1998: Gold Medal Award, Royal Architectural Institute of Canada
• 1999: AIA Gold Medal, American Institute of Architects
• 2000: Cooper–Hewitt National Design Award Lifetime Achievement{{cite web |url= http://www.cooperhewitt.org/NDA/WINNERS/2000/LIFETIMEACHIEVEMENT/index.shtml |title= Lifetime Achievement Winner: Frank Gehry |publisher= Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100925164117/http://cooperhewitt.org/NDA/WINNERS/2000/LIFETIMEACHIEVEMENT/index.shtml |archive-date= September 25, 2010 |df= mdy-all }}
• 2002: Companion of the Order of Canada (CC){{cite web |url= https://www.gg.ca/en/honours/recipients/146-1875 |title= Companion of the Order of Canada |publisher= Governor General of Canada |access-date= 2015-09-14}}
• 2004: Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service
• 2006: Inductee, California Hall of Fame
• 2007: Henry C. Turner Prize for Innovation in Construction Technology from the National Building Museum (on behalf of Gehry Partners and Gehry Technologies)
• 2009: Order of Charlemagne
• 2012: Twenty-five Year Award, American Institute of Architects
• 2014: Prince of Asturias Award
• 2014: Commandeur of the Ordre National de la Légion d'honneur, France
• 2015: J. Paul Getty Medal
• 2016: Harvard Arts Medal
• 2016: Leonore and Walter Annenberg Award for Diplomacy through the Arts, Foundation for Arts and Preservation in Embassies
• 2016: Presidential Medal of Freedom
• 2018: Neutra Medal{{Cite web | url=https://env.cpp.edu/arc/neutra-award | title=Neutra Award | Department of Architecture | College of Environmental Design – Cal Poly Pomona}}
• 2019: Inductee, Canada's Walk of Fame
• 2020: Paez Medal of Art, New York City (VAEA){{Cite web|title=FRANK GEHRY is one of the two recipient of VAEA's Paez Medal of Art 2020|url=http://vaearts.org/US/archives/15487|access-date=2020-11-18|website=VAEA|language=en-US|archive-date=October 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211027165713/http://vaearts.org/US/archives/15487|url-status=dead}}

Gehry was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 1974,{{cite web|website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database|url= https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/person/144/|title=Frank Owen Gehry (Architect)|access-date=27 January 2024}} and he has received many national, regional and local AIA awards. He is a senior fellow of the Design Futures Council and serves on the steering committee of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.

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| video1 = [http://www.ted.com/talks/frank_gehry_as_a_young_rebel Frank Gehry: My days as a young rebel], 44:28, TED Talks{{cite web |title= Frank Gehry: My days as a young rebel |publisher=TED Talks |date =1990 |url= http://www.ted.com/talks/frank_gehry_as_a_young_rebel | access-date =September 29, 2015}}

| video2 = [http://www.ted.com/talks/frank_gehry_asks_then_what Frank Gehry: A master architect asks, Now what?], 21:56, TED Talks{{cite web | title =Frank Gehry: A master architect asks, Now what? | publisher =TED Talks | date =2002 | url =http://www.ted.com/talks/frank_gehry_asks_then_what | access-date =September 29, 2015 }} }}

• 1987: California Institute of the Arts
• 1987: Rhode Island School of Design
• 1989: Otis College of Art and Design
• 1989: Technical University of Nova Scotia
• 1993: Occidental College
• 1995: Whittier College{{Cite web|url=https://www.whittier.edu/alumni/poetnation/honorary|title=Honorary Degrees {{!}} Whittier College|website=www.whittier.edu|access-date=2020-02-19}}
• 1996: Southern California Institute of Architecture{{cite book |last1=Dal Co |first1=Francesco |title=Frank O. Gehry: The Complete Works |date=2003 |publisher=Electaarchitecture ; Distributed by Phaidon Press |location=Milano, [London]}}
• 1998: University of Toronto
• 2000: Harvard University
• 2000: University of Edinburgh
• 2000: University of Southern California
• 2000: Yale University
• 2002: City College of New York
• 2004: School of the Art Institute of Chicago
• 2013: Case Western Reserve University
• 2013: Princeton University
• 2014: Juilliard School
• 2015: University of Technology Sydney
• 2017: University of Oxford
• 2019: Southern California Institute of Architecture{{Cite web|url=https://www.sciarc.edu/news/2019/sci-arc-presents-world-renowned-architect-frank-gehry-with-honorary-degree|title=Honorary Degrees {{!}} SCI-Arc Presents World-Renowned Architect Frank Gehry with Honorary Degree|website=www.sciarc.edu|access-date=2019-10-01}}

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• {{cite book |first1=Francesco |last1=Dal Co |first2=Kurt W. |last2=Forster |first3=Hadley |last3=Arnold |place=New York |title=Frank O. Gehry: The Complete Works |publisher=The Monacelli Press|year=1998 |isbn=978-1-885254-63-4}}
• {{cite book |publisher=Guggenheim Publications |date=May 2001 |first1=Frank O. |last1=Gehry |first2=Beatriz |last2=Colomina |author-link2=Beatriz Colomina|first3=Mildred |last3=Friedman |first4=William J. |last4=Mitchell |author-link4=William J. Mitchell|first5=J. Fiona |last5=Ragheb |first6=Jean-Louis |last6=Cohen |author7=Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum|author8-link=Museo Guggenheim Bilbao |author8=Museo Guggenheim Bilbao|title=Frank Gehry Architect |type=Hardcover |pages=390|isbn=978-0-8109-6929-2|author7-link=Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum }}
• {{Cite book |last=Goldberger |first=Paul |author-link=Paul Goldberger |year=2015 |title=Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eFKwBgAAQBAJ |location=New York |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |isbn=978-0-307-70153-4 |oclc=913514521}}
• Rattenbury, Kester (2006). Architects Today Laurence King Publishers. {{ISBN|978-1-85669-492-6}}.
• Staff (1995). [https://www.amazon.com/El-Croquis-74-1995-1991-1995/dp/B000QB4P68 "Frank Gehry 1991-1995"]. El Croquis.

• {{cite book |last1=Bletter |first1=Rosemarie Haag |author2=Walker Art Center |title=The Architecture of Frank Gehry |year=1986 |place=New York |publisher=Rizzoli |isbn=0-8478-0763-0 |author2-link=Walker Art Center |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/architectureoffr00gehr }} {{ISBN|978-0-8478-0763-5}}.
• {{cite book |editor-last1=Friedman |editor-first1=Mildred |first1=Michael |last1=Sorkin |title=Gehry Talks: Architecture + Process |type=Hardcover |place=New York |publisher=Rizzoli |edition=1st |date=December 17, 1999 |isbn=978-0-8478-2165-5}}
• {{cite book |last=Gehry |first=Frank O. |title=Gehry Draws |publisher=Violette Editions |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-900828-10-9}}
• {{cite book |last1=Richardson |first1=Sara S. |title=Frank O. Gehry: A Bibliography |place=Monticello, Ill. |publisher=Vance Bibliographies |year=1987 |isbn=1-55590-145-X}}
• {{cite book |last1=van Bruggen |first1=Coosje |title=Frank O. Gehry: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao |type=Hardcover |publisher=Guggenheim Museum Pubns |edition=1st |date=December 30, 1999 |place=New York |orig-year=1997 |isbn=978-0-8109-6907-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/frankogehrygugge0000brug }}

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• [http://www.foga.com Gehry Partners, LLP], Gehry's architecture firm
• [http://www.gehrytechnologies.com Gehry Technologies, Inc.], Gehry's technology firm
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• {{Charlie Rose view|415}}
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• [https://archive.today/20130415223503/http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/gehrylamps Fish Forms: Lamps by Frank Gehry Exhibition (2010)] at The Jewish Museum (New York)
• [http://storiesofhouses.blogspot.com/2006/02/frank-gehrys-house-in-california.html STORIES OF HOUSES: Frank Gehry's House in California]
• [http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2012-06/01/content_25538531.htm Bidding for the National Art Museum of China's new site]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120624052855/http://www.violetteeditions.com/books/previously_published/Frank_O_Gehry.html Gehry Draws on Violette Editions]
• [http://www.arti-fact.com/architect/map/19/Frank-Gehry Frank Gehry architecture on Google Maps]

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