Frank Gehry’s Best Work Was Not His Flashiest
If you had to sum up Frank Gehry’s career in a single word, the obvious choice would be Bilbao. The architect’s design for an outpost of the Guggenheim Museum in the northern Spanish city didn’t simply open in 1997—it detonated. Practically overnight, its billowing, titanium-sheathed forms helped transform a moribund industrial port into a global destination, and turned their rumpled Los Angeles…










