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Gehry was born Frank Goldberg in Toronto, Canada, in 1929. Frank Gehry moved to Los Angeles at an early age and completed his architectural education at the University of Southern California.

Frank Gehry 's most recent institutional buildings, which include the ICS/ERF computer sciences building for the University of California at Irvine (1986) and the Francis Howard Goldwyn Regional Branch Library (1986), continue to pose overscaled elements of entrance, light, and shelter against simple, sculptural masses disposed in a tightly ordered, but often nongeometric, fashion. Designs far the Yale Psychiatric Institute, the Herman Miller Inc. Western Regional Facility, and the Chiat/Day Agency Office Building, all currently nearing construction, also further Frank Gehry 's experimentation with shapes, materials, and the community of forms created in their careful composition. The skin of the building is undergoing the same kind of intensive research as that which created the complex decomposition and deformation of structure and shape in previous buildings. Collaboration with artists such as Class Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, along with Frank Gehry 's own interests, is also leading to the introduction of large-scale, inhabitable objects (binoculars at the Chiat/Day Building) and fish and snake forms **(Fishdance Restaurant, Kobe, Japan (1987))**. These elements, together with other basic forms from Frank Gehry 's repertoire, dad in such materials as Finnish plywood, copper, galvanized metal, cardboard, and lead, form the focal points for a retroapective exhibition originated in 1986 by **the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis**, Minnesota, and traveling to Houston, Toronto, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Boston.

We can see in this video some of frank gehry's projects like the: ** Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, The Walt Disney Concert Hall , etc.    **

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