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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

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

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 was a devoted outdoor-indoor architect, and he designed for the hall a balcony on which musicians can perform.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026

The Jewish architect Frank Gehry died on Dec. 5 at age 96.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026