Frank Gehry (1929–2025) Frank Owen Gehry, one of the most influential figures in contemporary architecture, has passed away at 96. Born in Canada in 1929, Gehry reshaped global architecture with a career defined by experimentation, risk, and a refusal to follow convention. He founded Frank O. Gehry & Associates in 1962, earning the Pritzker Prize in 1989. His work pushed the limits of form—most famously with the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, where titanium surfaces and deconstructivist geometry rede