A quicklist of Frank Gehry’s accomplishments as one of the world’s best-known architects
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The Toronto-born, Los Angeles-based architect Frank Gehry died on Friday. A titan of his field, here’s a summary of some of the awards and accolades he received over a career that spanned more than half a century:
In 1974, he was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects.
In 1977, he was named recipient of the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
In 1989, he was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize – perhaps the premiere accolade of the field – honouring “significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.”
In 1992, he received the Wolf Prize in Art (Architecture) from the Wolf Foundation.
In 1994, Gehry became the first recipient of the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Award for lifetime contribution to the arts. In 1998, he received the National Medal of Arts, and he became the first recipient of the Friedrich Kiesler Prize.
In 1998, he was the first winner of the Friedrich Kiesler Prize.
In 1999, Gehry received the Lotos Medal of Merit from the Lotos Club, and he received the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects.
In 2000, he received the Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from Americans for the Arts.
In 2002, Gehry received the Gold Medal for Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
In 2003, Gehry was invested as a Companion to the Order of Canada.
In 2008, he received the Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award at the Venice Biennale.
In 2021, he received Sculpture Society’s 2021 Henry Hering Art and Architecture Award for the distinguished use of sculpture in the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial in Washington D.C.
-With files from David Friend
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 5, 2025.