Gehry

American

[gair-ee, gar-ee] / ˈgɛər i, ˈgær i /

noun

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

Gehry British

/ ˈɡeɪrɪ /

noun

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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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

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

Like so many greats, Frank Gehry is best admired from a respectful distance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026

But the exorbitant cost of implementing his design and the constraints that Gehry imposed, including on the use of images of his sculptural design, doomed the proposal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026

An architectural competition was arranged and proposals solicited from three world-famous architects: Daniel Libeskind, Santiago Calatrava and Frank Gehry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026

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