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 inventive environment from an early age. However, his social life was clouded by anti-Semitism and teasing for most of his adolescence and affected him greatly throughout his life. Many of his peers called him a "fish" and 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 the paranoia of the future and these struggles are reflected in his work. Some may think his buildings are "weird" just for the sake of being weird, but Gehry's inventive, sculptural eye allows him to express his pain, anger, and worldview as an artist would on a cloth. He not only creates buildings, but also art. . After suffering an economic setback 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 only able to attend school later when he attended USC. He was then drafted into the United States Army in 1954, where he eventually began designing men's living rooms. These temporary structures were primarily made of corrugated iron, chain link fencing, and plywood – materials that would continue to reappear in Gehry's work in the future. In 1956, Gehry began attending the Harvard Graduate School of Design but was unable to appreciate the teaching style and in 1961 he traveled to Europe where he discovered a love for Romanesque buildings such as the Cathedral of Worms in Germany (something he had... .. middle of paper ......e uses history, art and instinct to express his thoughts and inner struggles and is able to release in this way I believe he began to take a new step in architecture creating buildings as an art form. Not all architects will create buildings as different as Gehry's, but I. think we will soon see many more buildings intended to represent the feelings and emotions of architects already woven by form and function mastered this skill and, as I said, is not just 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. Print. “Frank O. Gehry.” Encyclopedia of World Biography. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Student Resources in Context. Internet. November 15. 2013.