Frank Gehry: five key works

Star architect Frank Gehry has designed some of the most famous and eye-catching buildings of modern times. Here are five standouts:

- Gehry House, Santa Monica, 1978 -

Frank Gehry's own house, which he built early in his career, already signalled the essentials of his architectural style convention-busting, a fondness for layered facades, jagged angles and form-defying shapes.

It also made use of raw materials such as plywood, corrugated metal and glass.

Located on a street corner in Santa Monica, the architectural mash-up of the Gehry House was built around a Dutch Colonial bungalow from the 1920s.

It was the family home for four decades and has become a California tourist attraction.

- Dancing House, Prague, 1996 -

A remarkable apparition on a banal w

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