{"id":900,"date":"2025-12-05T20:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T20:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=900"},"modified":"2025-12-05T20:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T20:38:10","slug":"architect-frank-gehry-dead-at-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=900","title":{"rendered":"Architect Frank Gehry dead at 96"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Frank Gehry, considered one of the most influential architects of the century, has died aged 96.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Gehry is known for his avant garde, experimental style of architecture. His titanium-covered design of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain catapulted him to fame in 1997. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">He sealed his daring reputation years before that when he redesigned his own home in Santa Monica, California, using materials like chain-link fencing, plywood and corrugated steel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;Gehry is survived by two daughters from his first marriage, Leslie and Brina; his wife, Berta Isabel Aguilera, and their two sons, Alejandro and Samuel,&#8221; his chief of staff Meaghan Lloyd told the BBC on Friday. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Born in Toronto in 1929, Gehry moved to Los Angeles as a teenager to study architecture at the University of Southern California. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">After starting his own firm, he broke from the traditional architectural principles of symmetry, using unconventional shapes and materials in a style now known as deconstructivism. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">His work in Bilbao put him in high demand, and he went on to design iconic structures in cities all over the world: the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago&#8217;s Millennium Park, the Gehry Tower in Germany, and the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Architect #Frank #Gehry #dead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Gehry, considered one of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}