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Frank O. Gehry, an iconoclastic architect, has been alternately praised and maligned for exploring the boundaries between architecture and sculpture.

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The sheer joy in his exuberant forms was never contested, and even his critics credited the work for bringing popular attention to the profession. Among the strongest of these include his own house in Santa Monica, California, and the Winton Guest House in Wayzata, Minnesota, which complemented an austere glass house designed by Philip Johnson in , almost 30 years before.

Unafraid to use forms with metaphoric or figural associations, Gehry produced several whimsical buildings. In the Nationale-Nederlanden Building in Prague, Czech Republic, nicknamed "Fred and Ginger," a glass tower and a concrete mass appear to be dancing together. The Fishdance Restaurant in Kobe, Japan, features a foot-high fish sculpture.

Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Bilbao, Spain, is considered masterful for its magical, undulating forms. Although known as a quintessentially American architect, Canadian-born Gehry had his most spectacular successes in Europe. It was only later in his career that he completed high-profile commissions in the United States, namely, the Walt Disney Concert Hall construction begun in , halted, and restarted in in Los Angeles, Millennium Park in Chicago, and the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington.

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In the s, Gehry gained the reputation of using inexpensive materials in an irreverent manner that established in part what was called the "California style. Later, the dynamic collision of forms found in many Gehry buildings was sometimes mistakenly attributed to an affinity with the deconstructivist movement, although Gehry distanced himself from that school.

Gehry is more likely to cite visual artists as influences such as Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi than architects. He formed long-lasting collaborations with contemporaries Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen, and Richard Serra. The house was a generic suburban bungalow that Gehry engulfed with a series of platonic and amorphous forms.