Frank Gehry made us care about architecture. Even if you hated his buildings.

In person, Frank Gehry was not oracular, or overbearing. He didn’t discourse on the history of architecture, even though he changed that history forever. He had a few well-rehearsed stories, but they tended to be ironic or self-deprecating, such as how he once lobbied for a second Pritzker Prize because it had been a long time since 1989, when he earned his first one.