Canadians rule
When it comes to office supplies UK designers are welcome to consider themselves the best in the world; we Canadians are quite happy let them have that crown as long as we can claim the greatest living architect.
A lot of people don’t realise that Frank Gehry is Canadian, as he has spent a lot of his illustrious career working out of his current home in Los Angeles, but he was born in Toronto in 1929 and has always spoken fondly of his early years in our fair country – and his love of hockey!
In fact, Gehry is a truly international architect. Unlike most professionals, who tend to only operate within their own borders or perhaps take on the occasional commission abroad, Gehry is most well known for his amazing creations outside Canada and the US, such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the gravity-defying Dancing House in Prague. Of course, he started working in the US, and although some of his first buildings were more conventional than we’ve come to expect from Gehry, there are some glimpses of the unorthodox use of shape, structure and materials that have come to define his creations.
One of his earliest works, built in the 1980s, is still one of his most recognisable; a curious beach house in Los Angeles, raised on stilts and barely large enough to accommodate one room. This has changed hands for millions of dollars, not just for its location, but because of the identity of its famous creator. Not many of Gehry’s buildings are for sale, of course, but neither are they all large-scale, multi-million dollar corporate creations. He even waived his fee for the project to build a cancer care centre in Dundee because the charity had been set up by his friend.
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