Frank Gehry is the best-known building designer of the past 50 years. In modern architecture terms, “form follows function” had long been the unbreakable cardinal rule.

“Jane Spiller was one of our greatest clients,” he recalled in the 2009 book Frank Gehry: The Houses (Rizzoli). “She wanted us to do our stuff.” ...

Happy 95th birthday, Frank Gehry. Let’s give you the Disney Hall you really wanted Frank Gehry peers over a model of his Walt Disney Concert Hall during groundbreaking ceremonies in 1992.