Frank Gehry is Design Principal for the firm of Frank O. Gehry and Associates, Inc., which he established in 1962. Before founding the firm, Mr. Gehry worked with architects Victor Gruen and Pereira & Luckman in Los Angeles, and with André Remondet in Paris.

Raised in Toronto, Canada, Frank Gehry moved with his family to Los Angeles in 1947. Mr. Gehry received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California in 1954, and he studied City Planning at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. In subsequent years, Mr. Gehry has built an architectural career that has spanned four decades and produced public and private buildings in America, Europe and Asia. In an article published in The New York Times in November, 1989, noted architecture critic Paul Goldberger wrote that Mr. Gehry's "buildings are powerful essays in primal geometric form and... materials, and from an aesthetic standpoint they are among the most profound and brilliant works of architecture of our time." Hallmarks of Mr. Gehry's work include a particular concern that people exist comfortably within the spaces that he creates, and an insistence that his buildings address the context and culture of their sites.

His work has earned Mr. Gehry several of the most significant awards in the architectural field. In 1977, Mr. Gehry was named recipient of the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1989, he was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize, perhaps the premiere accolade of the field, honoring "significant contributions
to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture." In 1992, he received the Wolf Prize in Art (Architecture) from the Wolf Foundation. In the same year, he was named the recipient of the Praemium Imperiale Award by the Japan Art Association to "honor outstanding contributions to the development, popularization, and progress of the arts."
In 1994, he became the first recipient of the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Award for lifetime contribution to the arts. In 1998, Mr. Gehry received the National Medal of Arts, and he became the first recipient of the Friedrich Kiesler Prize. In 1999, Mr. Gehry received the Lotos Medal of Merit from the Lotos Club, and he received the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects. In 2000, Mr. Gehry received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Americans for the Arts. Mr. Gehry was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1987, a trustee of the American Academy in Rome in 1989, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991. In 1994, he was bestowed with the title of Academician by the National Academy of Design. In 1998, he was named an Honorary Academician by the Royal Academy of Arts. Mr. Gehry has received honorary doctoral degrees from Occidental College, Whittier College, the California College of Arts and Crafts, the Technical University of Nova Scotia, the Rhode Island School of Design, the California Institute of Arts, the Southern California Institute of Architecture, the Otis Art Institute at the Parsons School of Design, and the University of Toronto. In 1982, 1985, and 1987-89, Mr. Gehry held the Charlotte Davenport Professorship in Architecture at Yale University.
In 1984, he held the Eliot Noyes Chair at Harvard University. In 1996-97, he was a visiting scholar at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Switzerland. Mr. Gehry was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects (A.I.A.) in 1974, and his buildings have received over 100 national and regional A.I.A. awards.

Mr. Gehry's work has been featured in major architectural publications and in national and international trade journals, as well as in Newsweek, Time, Forbes, The Economist, Vanity Fair, Art in America, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Le Monde, L'Express, El Correo, and Frankfurter Allgemeine. Mr. Gehry's
architectural drawings and models, as well as his designs for cardboard and bentwood furniture and his interpretations (in various forms and materials) of fish, have been exhibited in major museums throughout the world.

FRANK O. GEHRY
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Frank O. Gehry established the architecture firm of Frank O. Gehry & Associates in 1962. Since that time, Mr. Gehry has built an architectural career that has spanned four decades and produced public and private buildings in America, Europe and Asia. In an article published in the New York Times in November, 1989, noted architecture critic Paul Goldberger wrote that Mr. Gehry's "buildings are powerful essays in primal geometric form and... materials, and from an aesthetic standpoint they are among the most profound and brilliant works of architecture of our time."

Selected Architectural Designs:
1983 - Temporary Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art; Los Angeles, California
1988 - Sirmai-Peterson Residence; Thousand Oaks, California
1989 - Schnabel Residence; Los Angeles, California
1989 - Vitra International Manufacturing Facility & Design Museum; Weil am Rhein, Germany
1991 - Chiat/Day Headquarters; Venice, California
1992 - University of Iowa Advanced Technologies Laboratory; Iowa City, Iowa
1992 - University of Toledo Center for the Visual Arts; Toledo, Ohio
1993 - Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum; Minneapolis, Minnesota
1994 - Vitra International Headquarters; Basel, Switzerland
1994 - The American Center; Paris, France
1995 - EMR Communication and Technology Center; Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
1995 - Team Disneyland Administration Building; Anaheim, California
1996 - Nationale-Nederlanden Building; Prague, Czech Republic
1997 - Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; Bilbao, Spain
1999 - The Vontz Center for Molecular Studies at the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
1999 - Der Neue Zollhof; Dusseldorf, Germany
2000 - DG Bank Headquarters; Berlin, Germany *
2000 - Experience Music Project; Seattle, Washington *
2001 - Bard College Center for the Performing Arts; Annandale-on-Hudson, New York *
2002 - The Walt Disney Concert Hall; Los Angeles, California *
2003 - The Peter B. Lewis Campus of the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio*
2003 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Stata Complex; Cambridge, Massachusetts *

* Listed Chronologically Based on Expected Completion Date

Selected Exhibition Designs:
1965 - Art Treasures of Japan; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
1966 - Assyrian Reliefs; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
1968 - Billy Al Bengston Retrospective; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
1978 - Treasures of Tutankhamen; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
1980 - Avant-Garde of Russia 1910-1930; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
1981 - Seventeen Artists in the Sixties; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
1983 - German Expressionist Sculpture; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
1994 - Degenerate Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
1997 - Exiles & Emigrés; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
1998 - The Art of the Motorcycle; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
1999 - The Art of the Motorcycle; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain

Selected Awards & Honors:
1974 - Elected to College of Fellows; American Institute of Architects
1977 - Recipient of Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize; American Academy of Arts and Letters
1987 - Elected to College of Fellows; American Academy of Arts and Letters
1987 - Honorary Doctorate of Visual Arts; California Institute of the Arts
1987 - Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts; Rhode Island School of Design
1989 - Recipient of Pritzker Architecture Prize; Hyatt Foundation
1989 - Elected as Trustee; American Academy in Rome
1989 - Honorary Doctorate of Engineering; Technical University of Nova Scotia
1989 - Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts; Otis Art Institute
1991 - Elected to College of Fellows; American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1992 - Recipient of Wolf Prize in Art; Wolf Foundation
1992 - Recipient of Praemium Imperiale Award; Japan Art Association
1993 - Honorary Doctorate of Humanities; Occidental College
1994 - Recipient of Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize; Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize Trust
1994 - Elected as Academician; National Academy of Design
1995 - Honorary Doctorate; Whittier College
1997 - Elected as Honorary Consul; City of Bilbao, Spain
1997 - Honorary Doctorate of Architecture; Southern California Institute of Architecture
1998 - Recipient of the Friedrich Kiesler Prize; Friedrich Kiesler Foundation
1998 - Elected Honorary Academician; Royal Academy of Arts
1998 - Recipient of the Gold Medal; Royal Architectural Institute of Canada
1998 - Elected as Chancellor of the City of Bilbao; Bilbao, Spain
1998 - Recipient of the National Medal of Arts; National Endowment of the Arts
1998 - Honorary Doctor of Laws; University of Toronto
1999 - Recipient of the Lotos Medal of Merit; The Lotos Club
1999 - Recipient of the AIA Gold Medal; American Institute of Architects
2000 - Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award; Americans for the Arts
In addition, Mr. Gehry has received over 100 awards from the American Institute of Architects to honor outstanding architectural design

Teaching Positions:
1979 - The William Bishop Chair, Yale University
1982 - Charlotte Davenport Professorship in Architecture, Yale University
1984 - Eliot Noyes Chair, Harvard University
1985 - Charlotte Davenport Professorship in Architecture, Yale University
1987 - Charlotte Davenport Professorship in Architecture, Yale University
1988 - Charlotte Davenport Professorship in Architecture, Yale University
1989 - Charlotte Davenport Professorship in Architecture, Yale University
1996 - Visiting Scholar, Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland
1998 - Visiting Professor, University of California at Los Angeles
1999 - Charlotte Davenport Professorship in Architecture, Yale University