Architect Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry

Living place: Toronto

Birthday: 28-2-1929 (95 years old)

Global rank: #28978

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Architect Frank Gehry profile

Who is Architect Frank Gehry?
Deconstructionist, Pritzker won the famous architect award for building many wonderful buildings that have become tourist attractions. He was called "the most important architect of our time" by Vanity Fair magazine in 2010. He designed
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, Museum Design Vitra, and 8 Spruce Street New York City, as well as the Miami New World Beach Center, the Prague Dancing House, and the National Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He tried truck driving, broadcasting, and chemical engineering before deciding on architecture. He studied city planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, but was left disgusted with what he felt was the program's socially irresponsible approach to architecture.

Family life info

His parents were Irwin and Thelma Goldberg, both Polish Jews. He was encouraged by his grandmother to build small buildings out of scrap wood as a child and has since grown his architectural philosophy using everyday materials, such as folded steel. corrugated, chain link fence, plywood, etc., in their designs. His first wife, Anita, convinced him to change his surname from Goldberg to Gehry to avoid anti-Semitism. He married his second wife, Berta Isabel Aguilera, in 1975. He had two sons named Alejandro and Samuel and two daughters named Brina and Leslie.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Architect Frank Gehry?
He and his contemporary Thom Mayne are often associated with the Los Angeles school of architecture.

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Summary of Frank Gehry profile

When was Architect Frank Gehry born?
Frank Gehry birthday 28-2-1929 (at the age of 95).
Where is Architect Frank Gehry's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Frank Gehry was born in Toronto, of Canada. is a Architect, whose Zodiac is Pisces, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Snake. Frank Gehry's global rank is 28978 and whose rank is 12 in list of famous Architect.
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Events in 1929 and 28-2

Events in the world in the birth year of Frank Gehry

  • Trotsky is expelled from U.S.S.R.
  • The Lateran Treaty establishes an independent Vatican City.
  • First large-scale Jewish-Arab violence caused by a clash at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.

Birthday Frank Gehry (28-2) in history

  • Day 28-2 year 1784: Pastor John Wesley issues the "Declaration of Declaration," officially establishing the Methodist Church.
  • Day 28-2 year 1849: The steamship California landed in San Francisco, bringing the first East Coasters to the Gold Rush.
  • Day 28-2 year 1916: Henry James, American novelist and critic, died.
  • Day 28-2 year 1948: The last British troops left India.
  • Day 28-2 year 1953: James Watson and Francis Crick described their theory that two DNA strands were coiled in a double helix.
  • Day 28-2 year 1983: The final episode of M*A*S*H aired. It was the most watched television program in history.
  • Day 28-2 year 1986: Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot to death in central Stockholm.
  • Day 28-2 year 1993: Four federal agents were killed in Waco, Texas, after they tried to serve an arrest warrant for weapons charges on Branch Davidian sect leader David Koresh, starting a 51-day standoff.
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