Frank Gehry

Frank O. Gehry (1929-) is an American architect of Canadian origins, the greatest exponent of the current of Deconstructivism. His "impossible buildings" leave anyone who observes them speechless, lost in the infinite game of disjointed volumes and apparently random geometries, disoriented by an illegible game of curved and oblique lines. A peculiar and amazing poetics, perfectly expressed in works such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein and the Wall Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, which earned him the victory of the Pritzker Prize in 1989, the highest world recognition for an architect. He is the bearer of an equally surprising taste for unusual and apparently poor materials, both in architecture and in his few design projects, made with Knoll and Vitra, where he gives life to furniture made with cardboard or with thin strips of maple wood.