Frank Gehry
Frank Owen Gehry born as Ephraim Owen Gehry on February 28, 1929. He was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Gehry was born into a Jewish family, as a little boy his grandmother Caplan was a big part of his life. She encouraged him to make small cities out of scraps of wood. As he got older in 1947 he moved to California and got a job driving a delivery truck, and studied at Los Angeles City College eventually to graduate from the University of Southern California’s School of Architecture.
Later after graduating college in 1954 Gehry took some time away from architecture. Frank worked in the service for the U.S. Army, he studied city planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Still being called Frank Goldberg, got married to Anita Snyder and she made him change his name to Frank Gehry. They had two daughters together. Then they all moved to Paris where he worked in the office of Andre Remondet. He studied work by LeCorbusier and Balthazar Neumann. He was attracted to the sculptures and art in Europe and Paris.
When Gehry and his family returned to Los Angeles, Gehry started his own firm. In the mid-1960s he divorced Anita and in the mid -1970s he remarried a woman named Berta. They had two sons and are still together today. Being a hockey fan as a kid growing up in Canada Gehry started a hockey league in his office. Sadly he doesn’t play in the league anymore. In 2004 Frank Gehry designed the World Cup of Hockey.
Frank Gehry spent a lot of years working in traditional architecture. Frank worked for the firms of Pereira and Luckman, Victor Gruen Associates, and Andre Remondet
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