Frank Gehry, World-Famous Postmodern Architect, Dead at 96

Frank Gehry, the architect whose work was so identifiable that he guest starred on The Simpsons , is dead at 96. Meaghan Lloyd, chief of staff at Gehry Partners LLP, told the Associated Press that Gehry died in his Santa Monica home after a brief respiratory illness. Gehry won every major architecture prize there is, per the Associated Press, including the ultra-prestigious Pritzker Prize. His work was described as “refreshingly original and totally American” despite him being Canadian. Gehry won both Americans for the Arts lifetime achievement award and the Companion of the Order of Canada. He is survived by his second wife, Berta, and children Brina, Alejandro, and Samuel.

Gehry was born Ephraim Owen Goldberg in 1929. He moved with his family from his native Toronto to Los Ang