After studying architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles, Gehry worked for various architectural firms before founding his own firm, Gehry Partners, in 1962. However, he began to make a name for himself as a designer of furniture and decorative objects in the 1960s and 1970s.
His international reputation came in the 1980s, when Gehry designed such iconic buildings as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. He has since created many other remarkable architectural works around the world, such as the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, MIT's Stata Center in Boston, and the Musée de la Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.
Gehry has won numerous awards for his architectural achievements, including the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 1989, considered the "Nobel of architecture". He continues to work on ambitious projects around the world, and remains one of the most influential and innovative architects of our time.