Not everyone was a fan of Gehry\u2019s work. Some naysayers dismissed it as not much more than gigantic, lopsided reincarnations of the little scrap-wood cities he said he spent hours building when he was growing up in the mining town of Timmins, Ontario.\n<\/p>\n
Princeton art critic Hal Foster dismissed many of his later efforts as \u201coppressive,\u201d arguing they were designed primarily to be tourist attractions. Some denounced the Disney Hall as looking like a collection of cardboard boxes that had been left out in the rain.\n<\/p>\n
Still other critics included Dwight D. Eisenhower\u2019s family, who objected to Gehry\u2019s bold proposal for a memorial to honor the nation\u2019s 34th president. Although the family said it wanted a simple memorial and not the one Gehry had proposed, with its multiple statues and billowing metal tapestries depicting Eisenhower\u2019s life, the architect declined to change his design significantly.\n<\/p>\n
If the words of his critics annoyed Gehry, he rarely let on. Indeed, he even sometimes played along. He appeared as himself in a 2005 episode of \u201cThe Simpsons\u201d cartoon show, in which he agreed to design a concert hall that was later converted into a prison.\n <\/p>\n
He came up with the idea for the design, which looked a lot like the Disney Hall, after crumpling Marge Simpson\u2019s letter to him and throwing it on the ground. After taking a look at it, he declared, \u201cFrank Gehry, you\u2019ve done it again!\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\u201cSome people think I actually do that,\u201d he would later tell the AP.\n<\/p>\n
Ephraim Owen Goldberg was born in Toronto on Feb. 28, 1929, and moved to Los Angeles with his family in 1947, eventually becoming a U.S. citizen. As an adult, he changed his name at the suggestion of his first wife, who told him antisemitism might be holding back his career.\n<\/p>\n
Although he had enjoyed drawing and building model cities as a child, Gehry said it wasn\u2019t until he was 20 that he pondered the possibility of pursuing a career in architecture, after a college ceramics teacher recognized his talent.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was like the first thing in my life that I\u2019d done well in,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
He went on to earn a degree in architecture from the University of Southern California in 1954. After serving in the Army, he studied urban planning at Harvard University.\n<\/p>\n
His survivors include his wife, Berta; daughter, Brina; sons Alejandro and Samuel; and the buildings he created.\n<\/p>\n
Another daughter, Leslie Gehry Brenner, died of cancer in 2008.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not everyone was a fan of Gehry\u2019s work. Some naysayers dismissed it as not much more than gigantic,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":428264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1448,2830,1311,122441,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-428263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-pa","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-museum-of-art","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115671368156707277","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}