Frank-Gehry

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. ...

Frank gehry furniture is a single 54-year argument that any material — corrugated cardboard, ColorCore plastic laminate, bentwood maple, mirror-polished stainless steel, ColorCore again, then bronze and copper — can be made to behave like architecture. The argument opens in 1972 at the Easy Edges workshop on Cloverfield Boulevard in Santa Monica, and it closes, posthumously, on 14 May 2026 in the back room of Gagosian Beverly Hills, where Larry Gagosian and the Gehry family have hung Fish on Fire — the last fish Frank Gehry executed in copper — beside a 2014 bear and a 2023 ColorCore crocodile under ten ink-and-watercolour drawings of fish in motion. Between those two dates sit the Wiggle Chair, the Fish Lamps, the Snake Lamps, the Knoll bentwood collection led by Cross Check, the Alessi Pito kettle, the 2006 Tiffany & Co. jewellery, the 2012 Gagosian fish revival, and the 2023 Louis Vuitton Capucines handbags. The 2026 show, organised six months after Gehry’s death and designed by his own studio, is also the prologue to “O Século de Gehry” at Fundação de Serralves in Porto, opening June 2026 and running until January 2027. ...

Twenty-six summers, twenty-six architects, and one impossible brief — design a London building before you are allowed to design a London building. The Serpentine Pavilion architects, from Zaha Hadid in 2000 to Lanza Atelier in 2026, have together built the most reliable predictor in contemporary architecture of who will define the next decade of museums, biennales and pavilions. Read the commission as a long roster — Hadid, Libeskind, Toyo Ito with Cecil Balmond, Oscar Niemeyer, Álvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura, OMA, SANAA, Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel, Peter Zumthor, Herzog & de Meuron with Ai Weiwei, Sou Fujimoto, Smiljan Radić, SelgasCano, BIG, Francis Kéré, Frida Escobedo, Junya Ishigami, Counterspace, Theaster Gates, Lina Ghotmeh, Mass Studies, Marina Tabassum, Lanza Atelier — and the line reads as a forward index to the next twenty Pritzkers, Venice directorships and global museum jobs. The pavilion does not predict the future; it commissions it. ...

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. ...

Frank Gehry’s first posthumous exhibition opens on 14 May 2026 at Gagosian Beverly Hills, six months after his death at 96, and it is — pointedly — not a building show. The four sculptures and ten fish drawings hung at 456 North Camden Drive collapse fifty-four years of Frank Gehry object design, from 1972’s Easy Edges cardboard chairs to 2023’s copper Fish on Fire, into one room. Titled simply “Frank Gehry” and running until 27 June 2026, the show was organised by Gagosian with the Gehry family and designed by his own studio in the months before his death. ...

The Sirmai-Peterson House — Frank Gehry’s 1983–88 cluster of cubic pavilions in Thousand Oaks, California — sold quietly in 2026, the last Gehry residence in private hands designed before his 1989 Vitra Design Museum commission redirected him toward institutional architecture. The Frank Gehry Sirmai-Peterson sale, reported by Wallpaper on 27 April 2026 and brokered by The Value of Architecture, closes a small and specific chapter in Los Angeles residential history. Between his own Gehry Residence at 1002 22nd Street in Santa Monica, completed in 1978, and the Vitra Design Museum that opened in Weil am Rhein in 1989, Gehry built a handful of private houses in greater Los Angeles that effectively served as full-scale models for everything that came after. The Sirmai-Peterson House — designed with Greg Walsh, completed five years after it was commissioned, and sited on a sloped, oak-studded hillside overlooking a pond — is the last of those experiments to change hands. Its sale to a medical professor and his wife, who plan roof repairs but have committed to preserve the design, is also a hinge: the moment at which the residential lineage that produced Gehry’s institutional career is finally treated as architectural patrimony rather than as a place to live. ...