Frank Gehry Frank Gehry is known for making astonishing buildings, but his achievement is much greater: he has single-handedly made design a public event. Cities clamor for his buildings, and people make pilgrimages to their doorsteps. In 1962, he formed Frank O. Gehry & Associates in Santa Monica, California, and in 1978 he gained widespread...
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AMERICAN ORIGINALS This honor—created especially for the first National Design Awards—is bestowed on individuals who have achieved the feat of becoming cultural icons by taking highly personal, even iconoclastic, paths to hone a unique vision of design. Morris Lapidus, 1902-2001 Morris Lapidus studied acting at New York University and architecture at Columbia University before embarking...
AMERICAN ORIGINALS This honor—created especially for the first National Design Awards—is bestowed on individuals who have achieved the feat of becoming cultural icons by taking highly personal, even iconoclastic, paths to hone a unique vision of design. John Hejduk, 1929-2000 True romantics are dangerously scarce these days. Thus the death of architect John Hejduk this...
