frank geary has never let popular impulse defy convention. "i was an outsider from the beginning" he says "so for better or worse i thrived on it." the child of poor jewish immigrants in los angeles and he embraced the city defined by an open horizon he rethought shapes and mediums, seemingly the force of gravity itself. the idea of what architecture could be he decided to upend every material available from titanium to paper towel tubes. he's inspiring our next generation through his advocacy for arts education in our sch l schools from the guggenheim to chicago's millennium park to his home in santa monica which i