Frank Gehry's Institutional Commissions, 1989-2026
Frank Gehry will spend his 97th year (b. February 1929) drafting a parametric glass canopy over the tram station at the Getty Center, a hilltop institution he had not touched since the early 1990s. The frank gehry institutional commissions catalogued below — from the 1989 Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein to the May 2026 Getty tram-station revamp confirmed by Dezeen on 29 May — span 37 years, four continents and a single argument: that civic culture deserves a roof shaped like weather. The new Getty job, awarded to Gehry Partners alongside WHY Architecture and landscape studio Olin, bookends the run that started on Rolf Fehlbaum’s grass in Baden-Württemberg. ...