2005 episode<\/a> of \u201cThe Simpsons,\u201d Mr. Gehry played himself. Marge writes a letter asking him to design Springfield\u2019s new $30 million concert hall. He balls up the letter and tosses it on the ground but then becomes enamored with the letter\u2019s crumpled shape and exclaims, \u201cFrank Gehry, you\u2019re a genius!\u201d <\/p>\nHe would also design the footbridge over Columbus Drive that links Millennium and Maggie Daley parks.<\/p>\n
Millennium Park Foundation Chairperson and President Donna LaPietra said Mr. Gehry wasn\u2019t initially excited about designing the pavilion. Cindy Pritzker helped change his mind.<\/p>\n
The proscenium \u201cunfurling in the air really reframed the whole eastern edge of the city … as it became as much a defining part of the cityscape as any towering building,\u201d LaPietra said. \u201cIt\u2019s just absolutely one of those things that literally takes your breath away.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jay and Cindy Pritzker\u2019s son, businessman Thomas Pritzker said he, his parents, his wife, Margo, Mr. Gehry and Mr. Gehry\u2019s spouse, Berta, often traveled together.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe went scuba diving in Papua New Guinea,\u201d he said. \u201cWe went to India. We went to Shanghai. \u201cActually, when we went to Papua, he didn\u2019t dive. He spent the day designing what is now the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr. Gehry had other connections to Chicago. From 2005 to 2007, he was part of a group that owned the modernist Inland Steel Building at 30 W. Monroe St. and designed an avant-garde seven-ton desk for its lobby.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe loved the fact that … he had a small ownership stake in an iconic Chicago building \u2014 sort of like the way you might feel if you owned a little chunk of a professional sports team or something like that,\u201d said architecture critic and author Paul Goldberger, who has known Mr. Gehry and documented the architect\u2019s career since the mid-1970s. <\/p>\n
\u201cI remember some of his earliest work,\u201d Smith said. \u201cIn the late \u201880s, we were talking about doing [a third World\u2019s Fair] in Chicago.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr. Gehry was also close friends with the late-Chicago architect and visionary Stanley Tigerman and his wife, Margaret McCurry.<\/p>\n
McCurry said Mr. Gehry put up a portion of the cash needed to publish the book, \u201cStanley Tigerman: Drawing on the Ineffable,\u201d a retrospective of Tigerman\u2019s work that was released this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrank always called Stanley \u2018Tiger,\u2019 and Stanley always called him \u2018Frankgooch,\u2019\u201d McCurry said. \u201cI have no idea where Stanley\u2019s [nickname for Mr. Gehry] came from, but it\u2019s just the kind of odd appellation that appears among friends.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr. Gehry set the architecture world on its ear and started his path toward worldwide recognition in 1978, with the radical remodeling of his own Santa Monica home.<\/p>\n
He turned the Dutch Colonial revival home into a brazen, fearless and yet stylish clash of corrugated metal, wood, glass panels, plywood and chain-link fencing.<\/p>\n
Many of his neighbors hated it. But the architecture world took note.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was rebelling against everything,\u201d Mr. Gehry told the New York Times in 2010. Of the dominant, minimalist architectural styles of some of his contemporaries, he said, \u201cI thought it was snotty and effete. It just didn\u2019t feel like it fit into life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frank O. Gehry, the architectural titan whose music pavilion and its accompanying serpentine-like bridge helped turn a sunken…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":429326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,1033,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-429325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115674002503959642","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429325","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=429325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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