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Frank O. Gehry, an artistic architect and designer, was born on February 28, 1992. He was born in Toronto, Canada. In 1947 he moved with his parents to Los Angeles, California at the age of eighteen. He went to the University of Southern California (USC). He graduated in 1954 and began to work with Victor Gruen Associates. He studied urban planning when he went to Harvard Graduate School of Design. After going to Harvard Frank O. Gehry and his wife, Berta, and two daughters moved to Paris. During his French education, he became interested in French Roman churches. Frank O. Gehry has won many awards like the Wolf award and the Preanium Imperial award. 

Frank Gehry's sketches are the beginning of his designing process. After the sketches, his models begin to take form. The model of the Guggenheim looks as if it were sprayed by a spray can. All of Frank Gehry's buildings are designed to make the people inside comfortable. One of his quotes is, "I approach each building as a sculpture object, a spatial container, a space with light and air, a response to context and appropriateness of feeling and spirit. To this container, this sculpture, the user brings his baggage, his program, and interacts with it to accommodate his needs. If he can't do that, I've failed." (http://www.pritzkerprize.com/gehry.htm) His art is based on nature and technological achievements of modernism. One of his creations, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, is one of his greatest works. Frank O. Gehry's work is sophisticated and emphasizes the art of architecture. Frank O. Gehry pushes the way of architecture to new boundaries. 
 
 

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