Frank Gehry was born on February 28, 1929 in Toronto, Canada. His parents, Irving and Thelma Caplan Goldberg, were both very creative people, and Gehry was exposed to an artistic and creative environment from an early age. His social life, however, was clouded by anti-Semitism and teasing for much of his adolescence and greatly affected him for the rest of his life. Many of his peers teased him as a “fish” and he developed a sort of obsession with these creatures that would only fade in his sculptures in the 1980s. For much of his life, Frank Gehry struggled with depression and paranoia about the future, and these struggles are reflected in his work. Some may believe that his buildings are “weird” just for the sake of being weird, but Gehry's creative and sculptural eye allows him to express his pain, his anger and his vision of the world as an artist would on a canvas. He doesn't just create buildings, but art. . After taking a hit economically in the 1940s, his family moved to Los Angeles in hopes of finding a better life. Unfortunately this was not the case. Gehry was forced to work to support his parents and was unable to attend school until later, when he attended USC. He was later drafted into the U.S. Army in 1954, where he eventually began designing living rooms for men. These temporary structures consisted primarily of corrugated metal, chain-link fences, and plywood, materials that would continue to reappear throughout Gehry's work in the future. In 1956, Gehry began attending the Harvard Graduate School of Design but failed to appreciate the teaching style and in 1961 he traveled to Europe where he discovered a love for Romanesque buildings such as the Worms Cathedral in Germany (something he had… .. .. middle of paper ......and uses story, art and instinct to express his inner thoughts and struggles and is able to free himself in this way taking the next step in architecture which is to create buildings as an art form. Not all architects will create buildings as diverse as Gehry's, but I believe we will soon see many more buildings intended to represent the feelings and emotions of architects intertwined with the form and function Frank Gehry has already mastered this skill and, as I said, he is not simply an architect but also an artist. Works Cited Bletter, Rosemarie H., Coosje van Bruggen, Mildred Friedman, Joseph Giovannini and Thomas S. Hines. The Architecture of Frank Gehry. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1986. 1-50. Press. "Frank O. Gehry." Encyclopedia of World Biography. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Student Resources in Context. Network. November 15. 2013.