Frank Gehry's early work and life by: Jessica Bero

In the middle of the 1960’s Anita Snyder and Frank Gehry got divorced. Then he married Berta in the 1970’s. They had two sons together. They are currently still together.
Gerhy spent many years of his life working in traditional architecture. During his firms first few years he experienced financial difficulties.
He expressed his creativity in his home that he used as a launch pad, playing with shapes and textures. Gehry had an epiphany when a guest at his house asked why his worked was so reserved and his house was so creative. So Gerhy decided to take his work to a more creative direction. The Guggenheim museum Bilbao work was known to be Gehry’s most iconic work and was thought to be the new direction of creativity he was talking about. Gehry was known for being on time and on budget in a business where delays and going over budget are common. Gerhy says there are three things he does to stay on time and to stay in budget. The first thing is to be an organized artist so they don’t have political and business interests and design a model as close to the original design as possible. The second thing is he makes sure he has a detailed and realistic estimate of what it’s going to cost. Thirdly he makes sure he keeps a close relationship with the area builders so he can meet the costs of the project.
In addition to his Architectural work, Frank Gehry designed a wristwatch that was marketed by Fossil. Instead of a regular watch, Gehry’s watch had showed digital text of the way a person might speak aloud. For instance if the time was 2:57 it would say 3 ‘til 3. Gehry has designed jewelry for Tiffany & Company. In 2004 he designed a bottle for Wyborowa Vodka. When he did this, he was showing people that he was willing to do other creative things other than architecture. Gehry has made an attempt to move away from titanium surfaces in his recent works. Gehry is working with different lighting and textures, putting this into his usual framework. He is putting these ideas into new projects, including a small office complex on west side of Manhattan.