Conversations with Frank Gehry
- By: Barbara Isenberg
- Price: $40
- More Info: knopf.knopfdoubleday.com
He’s the world’s only architect to guest star on The Simpsons and appear in Apple’s Think Different ads, but how well do you really know Frank Gehry? Think what you will of his work, but in this easily digestible series of interviews, the Canadian—born Ephraim Owen Goldberg—comes off as a pretty regular guy who happens to be the world’s most famous architect—not the villainous, megalomaniacal starchitect stereotype we’ve been trained to expect.
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