Frank Gehry's institutional architecture lineage from the Vitra Design Museum 1989 through Guggenheim Bilbao 1997, Fondation Louis Vuitton 2014 and Luma Arles 2021 to the 2026 Getty Center tram-station commission

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. ...

May 30, 2026 · 13 min · 2672 words · FORMA Editorial
Tilda Swinton and Olivier Saillard rehearsing House of Gestures in the 55-metre Frank Gehry atrium of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, June 2026

Tilda Swinton Design Projects, 2020–2026

Twelve years after Olivier Saillard first handed her an 1810 jacket once worn by Napoleon Bonaparte on the second floor of the Palais de Tokyo, Tilda Swinton’s design projects have become a parallel filmography — a sequence of stagings that treat the archive, the runway and the museum as the same room. The Tilda Swinton design projects assembled between 2012 and 2026 do not look like an actor’s brand portfolio. They look like a curatorial practice: four Saillard performances, two knitwear capsules with the Hawick label HADES, a Gentle Monster eyewear campaign inside HAUS NOWHERE Seoul, and, on 5 and 6 June 2026, House of Gestures in the atrium of Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao — co-presented by Dom Pérignon to mark the unveiling of its 2018 vintage. The throughline is not celebrity. It is the object, the garment, and the room they share. ...

May 23, 2026 · 13 min · 2624 words · FORMA Editorial

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