Frank Gehry Biography

Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg's name in Toronto, Ontario on February 28, 1929) was an architect of dual citizenship USA and Canada. The winner of the Pritzker Prize in 1989.

Gehry is known for carving approach to building design and to build structures that berkurva, and often wrapped in a shiny metal. Buildings he designed, including his private residence in Santa Monica, California, has become a tourist attraction. Many museums, companies, and cities seek Gehry services as a symbol of distinction, for all the products it makes.
The results of the most famous works are the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain which is coated with titanium, Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles, Dancing House in Prague, Czech Republic,

Personal life

Born in the middle of a Jewish family in Toronto, Ontario, his first name is Frank Goldberg. As a boy, he invited his grandmother to build small towns of the pieces of wood used. [1] Her grandmother called Caplan, greatly influenced the formation of his personality. Habits of his grandmother often observed. Every Thursday, the grandmother put live goldfish into a bathtub filled with water before cooking to gefilte fish. Movement of fish and other forms of attention are very happy, and will often be the theme of the design he made.
In 1947, Frank moved to California, worked as a truck driver and going to school in the Los Angeles City College, and eventually graduated from the University of Southern California School of Architecture
After graduating in 1954, Frank not directly working in the fields of architecture, but rather work in a place that has nothing to do with architecture, including a member of the U.S. military. Frank had studied urban planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, but quit before graduating. After that, Frank is married to Anita Snyder, and changed his name from Goldberg to Frank Gehry Frank. After the divorce with Snyder in the 1960's, married to Berta Gehry, who is now his wife. From his first marriage, Gehry had two daughters, while the two boys got from the second marriage.
As someone who grew up in Canada, Gehry is a huge fan of hockey up to set up a hockey league in his office. Hockey World Championship Cup is the result of its design in 2004.