SANTA MONICA, Calif.—Frank O. Gehry, architect and designer whose steel-covered Walt Disney Concert Hall transformed the landscape of downtown Los Angeles, died at his Santa Monica home on Dec. 5 at age 96.
His death followed a brief respiratory illness, Gehry Partners chief of staff Meaghan Lloyd said.
Gehry, who won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1989, is considered the most recognizable American architect since Frank Lloyd Wright. He was also among the first architects to embrace the potential of computer design.
Along with Disney Hall, his most famous works include the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, a titanium-clad building that opened in 1997….