Legendary architect Frank Gehry passed away on Friday in his Santa Monica, California home at age 96.
The New York Times confirmed with Meaghan Lloyd, Gehry’s chief of staff, that he died after a brief respiratory illness.
Gehry’s work includes the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Disney Village at Disneyland Paris, and Team Disney Anaheim. The concert hall, which opened in 2003, is one of his most famous works and shows off his distinctive postmodern style with a sculptural steel exterior.
Unfortunately, elements of Gehry’s original Disney Village (then called Festival Disney) are being removed as the shopping and dining district goes through a reimagining.
Gehry’s most famous non-Disney buildings are the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain and the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris. He also designed sets, furniture, jewelry, and sculptures.
His last completed building is Warner Brothers Second Century in Burbank, which opened in 2023. Other projects designed by Gehry are still under construction around the world.
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