David Bianculli
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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For Terry Gross and Tanya Mosley, I'm David Bianculli.
Today, we're going to commemorate Frank Gehry, who was one of the most famous and influential architects in the world.
He died last week at the age of 96.
Frank Gehry designed the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, which architect Philip Johnson described as the most important building of our time.
He also designed the Disney Concert Hall in L.A.
and Seattle's Experience Music Project, a music museum inspired by Jimi Hendrix.
Gary's work has been described as looking more like sculptures than buildings.
When Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes profiled him in 2002, Pelley said, quote, Unquote.
We're going to listen back to his 2004 interview with Terry Gross.
At the time, his latest project was the music pavilion at Chicago's new 24 1⁄2-acre Millennium Park.
Like his Guggenheim Museum, the exterior of his music pavilion has curving, billowing, floating shapes, shapes that actually are made of heavy, hard steel.
Terry asked him how he started working with those steel forms.
Frank Gehry, speaking to Terry Gross in 2004.