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SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Frank Gehry grew up in Canada. In his free time as a child, he would make small versions of buildings out of pieces of wood. In nineteen forty-seven, his family moved to the United States. That is where Frank Gehry began his university studies in architecture.
He believes that architecture is art. He has said that, in some ways, he has been more influenced by artists and sculptors than by architects. This may be why his buildings often look like energetic sculptures made from bold geometric forms.
STEVE EMBER: Famous examples of Frank Gehry’s work include the “Dancing House” in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. This playful building, finished in nineteen ninety-six, looks like two dancers.
His most famous building is the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. It was completed in nineteen ninety-seven. Most of the curving building is covered in titanium. It looks like a dancing metal wave sitting on the edge of a river. The curved surfaces of this building and others by Frank Gehry are so complex to build that they require computer programs.
SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: More recently, he designed the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is a wavy metallic building with nearly two hundred windows that sit at unexpected angles.
Frank Gehry in front of the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas in 2010
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