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Gehry

American  
[gair-ee, gar-ee] / ˈgɛər i, ˈgær i /

noun

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


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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Two years ago, for a new production of “Das Rheingold,” the first “Ring” opera, Gehry had designed a semi-pit for the orchestra in Disney and an elevated stage on the organ loft.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

Frank Gehry said he designed it to be Los Angeles’ living room.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

Gehry Partners, the architecture firm established by the late Frank Gehry in 2001, released renderings of its redesign, which includes a curving glass canopy above a staircase leading to the Lower Tram entrance.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

McLeod curated the exhibition alongside Meaghan Lloyd, chief of staff and partner at Gehry Partners, whom the director said “really speaks for Frank.”

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

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