Guggenheim Bilbao

Canadian- born Frank Gehry established his architectural practice in Los Angeles in 1962. In 1979, his design for his own residence in Santa Monica attracted attention for its deconstructivist take on the typical suburban house. Since the late 1980s, many of Gehry’s most iconic works, such as Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain (1997) and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles (2004) have featured metallic surfaces and curvilinear forms. He received the Pritzker Architecture Prize (1989) and the Friedrich Kiesler Prize (1998). In addition to his work as an architect, Gehry has created a line of furniture, jewelry, and various house hold items, and is also a sculptor.