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    Frank O. Gehry (b.1929)

     

    Biography

    Born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, into a Polish-Jewish family in Toronto, Ontario, his enthusiasm for building futuristic cities out of scraps of wood was nurtured from a young age by his grandmother, using leftover oddments from her husband's hardware store.

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    • In 1947, at the age of 18, he moved with his family to Los Angeles and the family's name was changed from Goldberg to Gehry. He later became a US citizen.

    Unsure of what career to choose, Gehry took a job driving a delivery truck, while attending a number of courses at Los Angeles City College.

    After various false starts he decided to try architecture and - despite some difficulty with his drawing skills - won several scholarships to the University of Southern California, from where, in 1954, he graduated top of his class with a degree in architecture.

    After graduating, Gehry joined the prestigious Los Angeles architectural firm of Victor Gruen Associates.

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