The quintessential starchitect’s biography is surprisingly sensitive.
Architect Frank Gehry has designed some of the most iconic buildings of the past two decades, from the Guggenheim Bilbao to Facebook’s new mothership in Silicon Valley. Yet in recent years, he has become something of architecture’s bete noire, lambasted for his extravagant, sculptural style in an era of razor-sharp efficiency, sued for alleged design errors, and mocked for butting heads with journalists. Misunderstood genius? A new biography from Paul Goldberger—Vanity Fair‘s architecture critic and prolific writer—suggests as much, painting a portrait of Gehry as a shy, sensitive man who’s grappling with self-doubt and ego in equal measure.
