Legendary architect Frank Gehry has died at the age of 96

Frank Gehry, the prolific Canadian-born American architect whose experimental work expanded the aesthetic realm of design and caused the ‘Bilbao effect,’ died in Santa Monica, California on Friday, December 5. He was 96 years old.

Since establishing his architectural practice in Los Angeles in 1962, Gehry explored several areas of design interest and iterations of style throughout the long span of his career. His 1970s Easy Edges and Experimental Edges furniture lines, made of cardboard and fiberboard, were the first works to gain him national interest, as they explored ideas of affordable, sustainable, mass-produced seating during the United States’ environmental movement. However, it was the renovation he made to his own two-story bungalow in Santa Monica, California, giving it a sculpt