Frank Gehry

 

Frank Gehry was born Frank Owen Goldberg, on the 28^th February 1929 in Toronto,. He moved with his family to Los Angeles as a teenager in 1947 and became a U.S citizen. Franks father changed the family’s name to Gehry when the family immigrated. Frank Gehry was uncertain on what to do for his career and as a teenager he drove a delivery truck to support himself while studying a range of courses at the los Angeles City College. He took his first architecture course without knowing where it might lead and became so fascinated with the possibilities of the arts. Frank Gehry won a scholarship to the university of Southern California and then graduated in 1945 with a degree in architecture.

Frank Gehry then went to work full time for the notable Los Angeles firm of victor gruen associates, but has to then go to the compulsory military service. After serving for a year in the army, Frank Gehry entered Harvard graduate school of design where he studies city planning. However he returned to Los Angeles without completing a graduate degree. Frank Gehry took his wife and two kids to Paris where he spent a year working in the office of a French architect Andre Remondet. Soon after Gehry and his family moved back to Los Angeles where Frank set up his own firm, Gehry associates.

Frank Gehry is an architecture whose work is based on buildings and the way the they are built. Frank Gehry said

  ‘Architecture is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it, we believe in its potential to make a difference, to enlighten and to enrich the human experience, to penetrate the barriers of misunderstanding and provide a beautiful context for life's drama.
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I find Frank Gehry work very interesting because of the way he designs these buildings in a way that it almost looks like an illusion. I like how his work is not just straight lines and blocks of builings, instead its buildings which have curves and bends in them which make the building look much more unique compares to a normal building that’s just a tall block. His designs are very fascinating and different from the ordinary. I think his work is very inspiring especially for architects around the world.