From the 1978 corrugated metal and chain-link fence renovation extravagance of his own Santa Monica, California, house to the huge, floating titanium transparency of the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum, architect Frank Gehry has been one of the world's most famous yet controversial architects. His experimental, undulating building designs delight some observers and confuse others, and Gehry himself once described his work as "weird." Despite this, Gehry has been honored with the Pritzker Architecture Prize, often referred to as "the Nobel of architecture." He has also received gold medals from both the American Institute of Architects and the Royal Institute of Architects for his life's work. Gehry is, according to architecture critic Paul Goldberger, as quoted in a People article by Patrick Rogers, "the only person since Frank Lloyd Wright who has been able to impress intellectuals and excite the general public. I think he's the most remarkable architect of our...