City Arts & Lectures

Encore - Frank Gehry


Listen Later

This week, we’re celebrating the life of architect Frank Gehry, with a conversation recorded in 2015. 

Widely regarded as one of the most influential designers of the last century, the Canadian-born architect was known for his use of bold shapes and unconventional building materials like titanium, stainless steel, and even chain-link.  Among his most famous projects are the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.  Frank Gehry died on December 5, 2025, at the age of 96. 

In this program, recorded on October 15, 2015, at the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco, Gehry talks with his biographer, Paul Goldberger.   Goldberger spent ten years as an architecture critic for the New York Times, where he won the Pulitzer Prize, and 13 years on the staff of The New Yorker.  Goldberger’s book on the life and work of Frank Gehry is “Building Art”. 

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

City Arts & LecturesBy City Arts & Lectures

  • 4.4
  • 4.4
  • 4.4
  • 4.4
  • 4.4

4.4

373 ratings


More shows like City Arts & Lectures

View all
Fresh Air by NPR

Fresh Air

38,442 Listeners

The New Yorker Radio Hour by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

The New Yorker Radio Hour

6,900 Listeners

The New Yorker: Fiction by The New Yorker

The New Yorker: Fiction

3,340 Listeners

The Book Review by The New York Times

The Book Review

3,929 Listeners

On the Media by WNYC Studios

On the Media

9,235 Listeners

The Political Scene | The New Yorker by The New Yorker

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

4,109 Listeners

KQED's Forum by KQED

KQED's Forum

735 Listeners

On Being with Krista Tippett by On Being Studios

On Being with Krista Tippett

10,402 Listeners

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker by The New Yorker

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

2,126 Listeners

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso by Higher Ground

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

1,464 Listeners

The Ezra Klein Show by New York Times Opinion

The Ezra Klein Show

16,494 Listeners

Poured Over by Barnes & Noble

Poured Over

315 Listeners

NPR's Book of the Day by NPR

NPR's Book of the Day

680 Listeners

The Interview by The New York Times

The Interview

1,606 Listeners

Critics at Large | The New Yorker by The New Yorker

Critics at Large | The New Yorker

661 Listeners