"At age 90, Gehry decided to challenge himself as his own client once more, building this second home from the ground up on another Santa Monica lot. Designed with aging in mind, the house includes an elevator and quarters for live-in help, along with the architect's signature expanses of glass and angled, gabled roofs. With the help of his son Sam, himself a designer, Gehry also installed geothermal wells for heating."
"Gehry's long-standing partnership with Louis Vuitton is not a typical one: The Pritzker Prize-winning architect designed the Fondation Louis Vuitton, the brand's art museum, in Paris in 2014, and collaborated on a line of handbags with the company 10 years later. Still, the flagship in Seoul was the first retail project Gehry completed since the early days of his career."
"This Silicon Valley home-which appears on AD 's December 2025 cover-was commissioned by tech entrepreneur Massy Mehdipour, a longtime superfan of the architect. The design for her home, which features sculptural wings similar to those of the Fondation Louis Vuitton and heavy wood beams not unlike those in Gehry's Santa Monica home, was "nothing like anything any contractor in Silicon Valley had ever attempted," writes Paul Goldberger."
Frank Gehry built a second Santa Monica home at age 90, designed with aging in mind and built from the ground up on a prominent lot. The house includes an elevator, quarters for live-in help, expansive glass, angled gabled roofs, and geothermal wells installed with his son Sam. Gehry's Seoul Louis Vuitton flagship features crystalline external forms and Peter Marino–designed interiors, combining groovy 1970s references with cutting-edge formal language. A final Silicon Valley residence for entrepreneur Massy Mehdipour features sculptural wings and heavy wood beams, took ten years to complete, and exemplifies Gehry's powerful, highly intricate architectural style.
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