Frank Gehry

Born Frank Goldberg in Toronto, raised in Los Angeles. The Guggenheim Bilbao (1997) made his name a metonym for civic transformation through architecture ("the Bilbao effect"). Walt Disney Concert Hall (2003), Fondation Louis Vuitton (2014), Luma Arles (2021).

Gehry's titanium-and-glass curves are computer-generated descendants of the cardboard models he used to build by hand. His office's adoption of CATIA (originally aerospace CAD) made the curves buildable.

Pritzker laureate 1989. Aged 90+, he remains in active practice.