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Frank Owen Gehry, (born Frank Owen Goldberg; )〔("Frank Gehry clears the air" ), ''Globe and Mail'', July 28, 2010〕 is a Canadian-born American architect, residing in Los Angeles. A number of his buildings, including his private residence, have become world-renowned attractions. His works are cited as being among the most important works of contemporary architecture in the 2010 World Architecture Survey, which led ''Vanity Fair'' to label him as "the most important architect of our age". Gehry's best-known works include the titanium-clad Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles; Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, France; MIT Ray and Maria Stata Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts; The Vontz Center for Molecular Studies on the University of Cincinnati campus; Experience Music Project in Seattle; New World Center in Miami Beach; Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis; Dancing House in Prague; the Vitra Design Museum and the museum MARTa Herford in Germany; the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto; the Cinémathèque française in Paris; and 8 Spruce Street in New York City. It was his private residence in Santa Monica, California, that jump-started his career. Gehry is also the designer of the future National Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial.〔for the design, see: http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/design.htm〕 ==Early life== Gehry was born Frank Owen Goldberg〔 on February 28, 1929, in Toronto, Ontario, to parents Irwin and Thelma (née Thelma Caplan) Goldberg.〔 His parents were Polish Jews who had immigrated to Canada prior to World War II.〔(Jewish Currents: "A Golden Age of Jewish Architects" by Abbott Gorin ) Spring 2015〕 A creative child, he was encouraged by his grandmother, with whom he would build little cities out of scraps of wood. With these scraps from her husband's hardware store, she entertained him for hours, building imaginary houses and futuristic cities on the living room floor.〔 His use of corrugated steel, chain link fencing, unpainted plywood and other utilitarian or "everyday" materials was partly inspired by spending Saturday mornings at his grandfather's hardware store. He would spend time drawing with his father, while his mother introduced him to the world of art. "So the creative genes were there", Gehry says. "But my father thought I was a dreamer, I wasn't gonna amount to anything. It was my mother who thought I was just reticent to do things. She would push me." He was given the Hebrew name "Ephraim" by his grandfather, but only used it at his bar mitzvah.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frank Gehry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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