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It is mid-afternoon on a Monday and Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry â despite having just turned 92 in a pandemic, completed the top floor of his building in the Grand Avenue development, and prepared for a show of new sculpture at the Gagosian Gallery â has little interest in sitting back to reflect on this potentially meaningful moment in his life and career.
Instead, he is on the move â giving his first studio tour since the Covid-19 outbreak, far more eager to discuss the myriad designs he has underway, most of which have been proceeding. (Only a high-rise in Manhattanâs Hudson Yards stalled, and his office laid off eight of 170 employees as a result.)
What would I do? Frank Gehry, 92, is too busy to retire
Frank Gehry looks out from behind a model of the King Street project in his native Toronto, at his architecture studio in Los Angeles, April 6, 2021. At 92, the Pritzker-winning architect is focusing on social justice projects and dismisses the idea of scaling back. What would I do? he said. I enjoy this stuff. Erik Carter/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- It was midafternoon on a Monday and Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry despite having just turned 92 in a pandemic, completed the top floor of his building in the Grand Avenue development, and prepared for a show of new sculpture at the Gagosian Gallery had little interest in sitting back to reflect on this potentially meaningful moment in his life and career.