Obituaries
Frank Gehry Left His Mark On Massachusetts Architecture With 2 Notable Buildings
"The angles and curves of this building represent our ability to solve problems," Cambridge Mayor Michael Sullivan said at the time.
December 8, 2025
Frank Gehry, the world-famous architect, has died at 96 years old. The designer of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles also left his mark on the Massachusetts architecture scene with two recognizable buildings in the Boston area.
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Gehry designed the Ray and Maria Stata Center, a quirky looking building on the MIT campus in Cambridge that opened in 2004.
The school describes the 720,000-square-foot structure made with 2.6 million pounds of steel as "a cacophony of structural elements wedged, pushed, toppled, and fused into one another."
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