{"id":37296,"date":"2025-12-08T12:59:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T11:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.luxus-plus.com\/?p=37296"},"modified":"2025-12-10T14:00:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:00:21","slug":"disappearance-of-frank-gehry-the-rolls-royce-of-architecture-in-5-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.luxus-plus.com\/en\/disappearance-of-frank-gehry-the-rolls-royce-of-architecture-in-5-dates\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing of Frank Gehry: The Rolls-Royce of Architecture in 5 Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the age of 96, the icon of contemporary design passed away from respiratory illness on December 5, 2025, in California. From the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao to the Louis Vuitton Foundation, the Picasso of architecture and winner of the Pritzker Prize (1989) revolutionized this urban art form with his bold, sculptural, and deconstructed buildings. Here are five dates that mark his impressive career.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHis work, sometimes controversial but always captivating, has been described as iconoclastic, turbulent, and ephemeral, but in awarding him this prize, the jury salutes that restless spirit that has made his buildings a unique expression of contemporary life…\u201d This is how an independent jury presented him with the Pritzker Prize<\/b> in 1989 in Nara, Japan. Created in 1979, this \u201cNobel Prize of architecture\u201d honors each year living architects whose achievements demonstrate their talent, vision, and commitment.<\/b><\/p>\n

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Born in 1929 in Toronto, Canada, to a Jewish family of Polish origin<\/b>, the young Frank Owen Goldberg<\/b>, as he was formerly known, spent a lot of time in his grandfather’s hardware store, where he handled and experimented with all kinds of materials. After moving to California, the budding artist studied architecture at the University of Southern California, before attending the Harvard Graduate School of Design. From his first residences and projects in the 1960s<\/b>, his style was already breaking<\/b> with the architectural traditions of the time<\/b>. He asserted his preference for form and movement over symmetry or pure functionalism, and turned to inexpensive and ordinary materials.<\/b><\/p>\n

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