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This is Fresh Air. I'm David Bean Coley.

Today, we're going to commemorate Frank Geh Gary, who was one of the most famous and influential architects in the world. He died last week at the age of 96. Frank Gehry designed the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, which architect Philip Johnson described as the most important building of our time.

He also designed the Disney Concert Hall in L.A. and Seattle's Experience Music Project,

a music museum inspired by Jimmy Hendricks.

Gary's work has been described as looking more like sculptures than buildings.

When Scott Pelly of 60 Minutes profiled him

in 2002, Pelley said, quote, Gary is to architecture what Einstein was to physics, what Picasso

was to painting, what Jordan is to basketball, unquote. We're going to listen back to his 2004

interview with Terry Gross.

At the time, his latest project was the music pavilion at Chicago's new 24-5-acre Millennium Park.

Like his Guggenheim Museum, the exterior of his music pavilion has curving, billowing, floating shapes,

shapes that actually are made of heavy, hard steel.

Terry asked him how he started working with those steel forms.

I came into architecture at the height of modernism.

After the war, decoration was a sin, purity, functionalism, all of that stuff.

So it was an era of purity and functionalism, a lot of glass and steel high-rises?

Right, and it became very cold and inhuman and lifeless.

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