Frank Gehry, Pritzker Architecture Prize
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Gehry rose to international prominence with the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the 1997 project often credited with triggering the so-called "Bilbao effect" that can lift a city’s cultural profile. He won the Pritzker Prize in 1989 and later completed other signature works, including the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
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Frank Gehry's unlikely Texas connection: See where designer left his mark in the Lone Star State
His Texas connection is less well-known. In the 1970s, Gehry was contracted to help design the master plan for The Woodlands Town Center outside of Houston. He developed many concepts that would be applied to the final plan, alongside other world-renowned designers.
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