Frank Gehry was born Ephraim Goldberg on February 28, 1929 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is a renowned architect who has designed many famous structures spanning the globe.http://www.notablebiographies.com/news/Ca-Ge/Gehry-Frank.html

Gehry studied at the University of Southern California and received an undergraduate degree in architecture there in 1954. After graduating from USC in 1954, Gehry had a one-year stint in the U.S. Army, Special Services Division. It was during this time that he began experimenting with furniture design since his assignment was to make furniture for the enlisted soldiers. Gehry's designs were so good that his tables and chairs usually ended up in the officers' quarters. He then spent a year studying city planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1957 Gehry returned to California and worked for several years with established architecture firms, before opening his own design firm in 1962. http://www.notablebiographies.com/news/Ca-Ge/Gehry-Frank.html

Early on in his career, Gehry used inexpensive materials like cardboard, chain link fence, plywood and concrete which made his projects look unfinished. Gehry told Richard Lacayo of Time Magazine that "I was trying to humanize stuff."http://www.notablebiographies.com/news/Ca-Ge/Gehry-Frank.html Gehry's first brush with fame came when he created a line of furniture made of layers of corrugated cardboard called Easy Edges. Later in the 1970s he came up with an updated version of the product called Exceptional Edges.

Gehry was recognized for his work when he received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1989.http://www.biography.com/articles/Frank-O-Gehry-9308278

Gehry has designed buildings across the globe. He is most famous for his work on the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain. He also has designed the Experience Music Project, which is a tribute to Jimi Hendrix and the entire music scene in Seattle, Washington, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California.

Many consider Gehry's work on the Walt Disney Concert Hall to be, along with the Guggenheim, his crowning achievement. The hall houses the Los Angeles Philharmonic. It is said that Lilian Disney, Walt Disney's widow, was thrown a bit by the designs of Gehry until he explained what his inspiration for the design was. That was a white rose floating in a bowl of water. http://www.notablebiographies.com/news/Ca-Ge/Gehry-Frank.html

Other Gehry designs include: the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California, the Ruscha House at 29 Palms, California, the Venice Beach House in Venice, California, the American Center in Paris, France and the University of Minnesota Art Museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota. http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Frank_Gehry.html

It was also announced that one of Gehry's designs was selected for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial to be built in Washington, DC. That is scheduled to open on Memorial Day 2015. Gehry was selected from a field of 44 prestigious design firms. http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/34233/gehrys-eisenhower-memorial-project-moves-forward/