Architecture is art — without it ‘you're giving up’: rebel architect Frank Gehry

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Frank Gehry, arguably the world’s most famous architect, has died at 96 . A rebel in his field, he never stopped creating sensual, sculptural buildings which rejected the cold minimalism and glass boxes of Modernism, and the ornate flourishes of Postmodernism.

Gehry became an international celebrity in his late 60s for designing the now-iconic Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain. And with his global fame came the nicknames that Gehry hated almost as much as he seemed to hate the media.

“The damn word, Star’chitect. That was invented by the press. Who would call themselves a Star'chitect? So the press invents a name and then they use it to disparage