Résumé

Architectural Designer, Victor Gruen Associates, Los Angeles, CA, 1953-1954.

Served in the Special Services Division, United States Army, 1955-1956.

Planner and Designer, Robert and Company Architects, Atlanta, GA, 1955-1956.

Designer and Planner, Hideo Sasaki Associates, Boston, MA, 1957.

Architectural Designer, Pereira and Luckman, Architects, Los Angeles, CA, 1957-1958.

Planner/Designer/Project Director, Victor Gruen Associates, Los Angeles, CA, 1958-1961.

Project Director and Planner, André Remondet, Paris, France, 1961.

Principal, Frank O. Gehry and Associates, Los Angeles, CA, 1962- .

Teaching

Assistant Professor, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, 1972-1973.

Visiting Critic, University of California, Los Angeles IUCLA), Westwood, Los Angeles, CA, 1977 and 1979. (Gehry sat in on design critiques at UCLA periodically for a long period.)

William Bishop Professor of Architecture, Yale University, School of Architecture, New Haven, CT, 1979.

William B. and Charlotte Shepherd Davenport Visiting Professor, School of Architecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1982, 1985 and 1987-1989.

Eliot Noyes Chair, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1988, and 1989.

Kahn Visiting Professorship, Yale University, School of Architecture, New Haven CT, 2004.

Professional Activities

Jury Member, American Institute of Architects, Southern California Chapter, 1984 Los Angeles Olympics Gateway Arch Competition, Los Angeles, CA, c. 1982. Other members of the jury included architect Frank O. Gehry, John Lautner (1911-1994), Raymond Kappe (1927-2019) and sculptor Clare Falkenstein (1908-1997). (See "Architects, Sculptor Named to Arch Jury," Los Angeles Times, 06/19/1983, part VIII, p. 9.) Sculptor Robert Graham (1938-2008) unvelied his design for the archway with torsos of male and female athletes on 06/01/1984.

Gehry delivered the Louis I. Kahn Memorial Lecture at the Philadelphia Center for Architecture in 1989.

Professional Awards

Fellow, American Institute of Architects (FAIA), 1974.

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1987.

Trustee, American Academy, Rome, Italy, 1989.

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1991.

Recipient, Arnold Bruner Memorial Prize in Architecture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, 1977.

Recipient, Pritzker Architecture Prize, Hyatt Foundation, Chicago, IL, 1989.

Recipient, Wolf Prize in Art, Wolf Foundation, Herzlia Pituach, Israel, 1992.

Recipient, Praemium Imperiale Award, Japan Art Association, Tokyo, Japan, 1992.

Recipient, Dorothy and Lillian Gish Award for Lifetime Contribution to the Arts, Los Angeles, CA, 1994.

Recipient, Chrysler Award for Design Innovation (presented by the Chrystler Corporation in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), 1995.

Recipient, American Institute of Architects (AIA) Gold Medal, Washington, DC, 1999.

Gehry has received honorary doctorates from Whittier College, Whittier, CA, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland and San Francisco, CA, Technical University of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, the California Institute of Arts, Valencia, CA, Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Los Angeles, CA, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY.

College

B.Arch., School of Architecture, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, 1949-1951; coursework in city planning, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1956-1957.

Relocation

Gehry was born Ephraim Goldberg in Toronto, ON; Frank O.Gehry and his family moved to Los Angeles, CA, in 1947.

Biographical Notes

Gehry gave the lecture, 'Current Work,' at Yale University, School of Architecture, New Haven, CT, on 04/01/2004.

• Toronto, Ontario Canada (Architect's Birth)
  Toronto, Ontario Canada

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