Immigrant of the Day: Frank Gehry (Canada)

The architect Frank Gehry, born in Toronto, is our Immigrant of the Day.  He is a now a dual US-Canada citizen.

Frank Owen Gehry CC (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, February 28, 1929) is a Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles. His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. Many museums, companies, and cities seek Gehry’s services as a badge of distinction. His best-known works include the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles (see photo above), Experience Music Project in Seattle, Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, Dancing House in Prague, Czech Republic, and his private residence in Santa Monica, California.  His latest project — the renovation of the Art Gallery of Ontario — is discussed in this N.Y. Times article.

Gehry was born in Toronto, Ontario. In 1947 Gehry moved to California, got a job driving a delivery truck, and studied at Los Angeles City College and eventually graduated from University of Southern California’s School of Architecture. He studied city planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design for a year, leaving before completing the program. Gehry is a Distinguished Professor of Architecture at Columbia University and also teaches at Yale University.

KJ