Interior Design Hall of Fame

Throughout his career, Frank O. Gehry has produced work that is consistently and, at times, defiantly, aloof from the various faddish or scholarly "ism's" that have gripped the architecture and design world. Mr. Gehry's increasingly impressive body of work has proven that total departure from traditional forms and materials need not condemn a project to the level of curious but ultimately insignificant architectural novelty. Mr. Gehry's most compelling gift is, perhaps, his ability to bring an element of excitement, unexpected beauty and humor into projects that, in the hands of less imaginative designers, are usually mired in cookie-cutter cliches and decidedly uninspired attempts at, well, inspiration.

Raised in Toronto, Canada, Frank Gehry moved with his family to Los Angeles in 1947. Mr. Gehry received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of South California in 1954, and he studied City Planning at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

His work has earned him several of the most significant awards in the architectural field. In 1998, Mr. Gehry received the National Medal of Arts. In 2002, Mr. Gehry received the Gold Medal for Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Projects include: the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; the DZ Bank Building, a mixed-use building adjacent to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany; Der Neue Zollhof, an office complex in Dusseldorf, Germany; the Experience Music Project in Seattle, WA; the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum in Biloxi, MS; the Bard College Performing Arts Center in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; the Peter B. Lewis Campus of the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH; the Millennium Park Music Pavilion and Great Lawn in Chicago, IL; the Corcoran Gallery and School of Art in Washington, D.C.; the Marques de Riscal Winery in Elciego, Spain; Maggie's Centre, a cancer patient care center in Dundee, Scotland; the Team Disneyland Administration Building in Anaheim, CA; the Nationale-Nederlanden Building in Prague, Czech Republic; the EMR Communication and Technology Center in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany; the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN; the University of Toledo Center for Visual Arts in Toledo, OH; the Vila Olimpica Retail and Commercial Complex in Barcelona, Spain; the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, CA; the Chiat/Day Office Building in Venice, CA; the Vitra International Furniture Museum and Factory in Weil am Rhein, Germany, and the Vitra International Headquarters in Basel, Switzerland.