Gehry

American  

[gair-ee, gar-ee] / ˈgɛər i, ˈgær i /

noun

1. Frank Ephraim Goldberg, born 1929, U.S. architect, born in Canada.

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Gehry British  

/ ˈɡeɪrɪ /

noun

1. Frank O ( wen ). born 1929, US architect and furniture designer, born in Canada; best known for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain (1997)

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Example Sentences

She renders the fearless quality of Gehry’s work in vivid verbs, pointing out that if Wright “broke open the box in his Prairie homes, Frank Gehry has ruptured the building-as-box completely—destroyed it in fact.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Reviewing a 2001 Frank Gehry retrospective at the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Guggenheim Museum for The Wall Street Journal, Huxtable describes how plans, photographs and models representing 40 years of Gehry’s buildings “wind their way up Wright’s ramp. With their undulating, silvery roofs, dynamically angled walls, and sinuous shapes, they seem to float or fly.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Four springs ago I toured Grand Avenue with Gehry to gather what he had in mind for an arts district.

From Los Angeles Times

Bottom-liners had also nixed Gehry’s original design for a more gracious lobby with a cafe out front, not the gloomy one installed against his will.

From Los Angeles Times

So many plans Frank Gehry imagined for L.A. still remain.

From Los Angeles Times