The Life and Work of a Social Four

Tim Vreeland

Fank Gehry was born Ephraim Goldberg in 1929 in Toronto, Canada. His father, a former boxer, sold slot machines and took young Ephraim on his sales calls. By contrast, his mother took him to concerts and introduced him to art. He remembers building imaginary cities on the floor with his grandmother out of wood scraps and shavings from the kindling box next to the stove. When his father suffered a heart attack in 1947, the entire family m...

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