Frank Gehry will celebrate his 84th birthday tomorrow

Toronto/Prague - His undulating buildings, often resembling sculptures, are now among the gems of world architecture. The houses of American Frank Gehry are tourist attractions everywhere. He wished to bring movement to the static nature of architecture. On Thursday, February 28, he will turn 84 years old.
     Gehry's signature can also be seen in the Dancing House in Prague on Rašínovo nábřeží, where the architects were freely inspired by the facades of surrounding buildings, mostly Art Nouveau with turrets. They created a glass tower and narrowed it in the middle, making it resemble a female body.
     Among Gehry's most famous works is the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, which rises in the city center like a gigantic iron flower. The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, resembles a spacecraft from a distant galaxy. Its construction of limestone, glass, and metal is covered with panels of titanium sheets. And the strangely shaped gelatin cake resembles Gehry's house in Seattle, USA, named Experience Music with blue, red, silver, and shiny walls that wave like curtains in the wind and do not have a right angle.
     Gehry was born on February 28, 1929, as Ephraim Owen Goldberg, exploring the insides of broken toasters and clocks in his grandfather's hardware store in Toronto, building fairy-tale cities from spare parts. His father's businesses struggled, so they set off for Los Angeles. There, Gehry installed prefab dining nooks in houses 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 his corrugated cardboard chairs names like Krosček, Vysoká hůl, or Power Play.