Frank Gehry is one of the world’s most respected and celebrated architects.  His projects include the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; the Richard B. Fischer Center at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; the Ray and Maria Stata Center at MIT in Boston; and the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

While many other great architects sketch their concepts for a building on paper, Mr. Gehry bases his design process on extensive physical modeling at multiple scales, in which both the functional and formal aspects of a development are explored in detail. Very early in the process, actual building materials and large-scale mock-ups are employed to promote understanding of the design. 

The creation of Gehry’s signature swooping forms is made possible by the use of CATIA, a highly sophisticated three-dimensional computer modeling program originally created for use by the aerospace industry, to thoroughly document designs and to rationalize the bidding, fabrication and construction process.

Born in 1929, Mr. Gehry and his family moved to California after living in Toronto, Canada, until he was 18. Mr. Gehry received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California in 1954 and studied City Planning at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.