Frank Gehry

Born Frank Goldberg on February 28, 1929, he grew up between Canada and America before making his name in 1970s Los Angeles with a style that married chain-link and plywood to geometric chaos. His own Santa Monica house became a manifesto: everyday materials torqued into something strange. The Pritzker Prize came in 1989, but the real turn was Bilbao in 1997 — a Guggenheim wrapped in titanium waves that put a struggling Spanish city on the map and proved architecture could be destination in itself. The Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Louis Vuitton Foundation followed, each a sculptural experi…