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- Frank Gehry, who died Friday at 96, challenged the notion that buildings needed to behave themselves — creating artful, strange, kinetic combinations of structure, material, form and light, and transforming cities in the process.
- Here are 10 of his most famous structures that pushed the boundaries of architecture, culture, taste and technology. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain, 1997 Curves and angles mix in this section of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.
- (JAVIER BAULUZ/ASSOCIATED PRESS) While only one piece of a much larger urban transformation, this uproarious structure, perched at the edge of the Basque city’s industrial waterfront, utterly transformed its image, giving birth to the overused phrase “Bilbao Effect.” Its curving, ever-changing titanium facade — with offset panels catching the light and wowing millions of visitors — became a symbol of a new era of baroque, digitally-driven architecture.
- (Gehry and his team worked with CATIA, a software formerly employed by aircraft designers.) Inside, a dizzying atrium ties together a fluid series of galleries, all sized for contemporary art’s expanding scale.
