Frank Gehry will celebrate his 83rd birthday

Toronto - His undulating buildings, often resembling sculptures, are now among the jewels of world architecture. American Frank Gehry is a guru of global architecture, whose houses represent tourist attractions everywhere. He longed to bring movement into the static nature of architecture.
     Gehry's signature is also present in Prague's Dancing House on Rašínovo nábřeží, where the architects were freely inspired by the facades of the surrounding buildings, mostly Art Nouveau with turrets. They created a glass tower and narrowed it in the middle until it began to resemble a woman's body.
     Some of Gehry's most famous works include the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, which towers in the city center like a gigantic iron flower. The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain resembles a spaceship from a distant galaxy. Its construction of limestone, glass, and metal is covered with panels of titanium sheeting. And the oddly shaped gelatinous cake resembles Gehry's house in Seattle called Experience Music, with blue, red, silver, and shiny walls that ripple like curtains in the wind and do not form right angles.
     Gehry was born on February 28, 1929, as Ephraim Owen Goldberg; in his grandfather's hardware store in Toronto, he explored the insides of broken toasters and clocks, building fairy-tale cities from spare parts. His father's businesses were not thriving, so they set off for Los Angeles. In Los Angeles, Gehry installed prefabricated dining nooks in homes during the day and studied architecture at the University of Southern California in the evenings.
     Once a passionate hockey player and admirer of Jaromír Jágr, he also worked in the field of paper design, giving names to his corrugated cardboard chairs such as Krosček, Vysoká hůl, and Power Play.