Frank Gehry | 1929–2025 Frank Owen Gehry—widely described as a titan of architecture, including in the New York Times tribute “Frank Gehry, Titan of Architecture”—has died at 96. Born in Toronto in 1929, Gehry spent more than six decades redefining architectural form, pioneering digital design tools, and challenging the discipline’s assumptions about space, structure, and cultural identity. He founded Frank O. Gehry & Associates in 1962, later Gehry Partners, shaping a practice rooted in materia