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

Most Angelenos know Frank Gehry as the rebel architect whose deconstructivist buildings reinvigorated L.A. amid its late-century identity crisis.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

The first fish sculptures Gehry made in the ’80s were contained, even still.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

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 • Mar. 24, 2026

Gehry wanted to turn BP Hall, where preconcert talks occur, into a small chamber music hall with a suspended balcony.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026

Gehry bequeathed blueprints and models, sketches and concepts, for his large and devoted team of younger architects and next-generation visionaries equipped to fabricate our way out of angst.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026