Frank Owen Gehry’s buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. Many museums, companies, and cities seek Gehry’s services as a badge of distinction, regardless of the product he delivers. His best known works include the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, which is covered in titanium, Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles, Dancing House in Prague, Czech Republic, and his private residence in Santa Monica, California, the latter of which jump-started his substantive career and lifted it from the stature of “paper architecture”, a phenomenon in which many famous architects are observed to have experienced their formative decades experimenting almost exclusively on paper before receiving their first major commission in their later years. Source-Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Gehry

Renzo Piano is an Italian architect. From 1965 to 1970 he worked with Louis Kahn and with Makowsky. Later, he worked with Richard Rogers from 1971 to 1977, including work on the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. He also had a long collaboration with the famed engineer Peter Rice. Today, Piano is well known for his museum designs: the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Menil Collection in Houston, the Beyeler Foundation museum in Basel, Switzerland, a museum dedicated to Swiss painter Paul Klee in Bern, Switzerland, as well as completed museum projects in Dallas (the Nasher Sculpture Center) and in Atlanta (the High Museum of Art).

One of Piano’s most recent designs is the approved Shard London Bridge skyscraper, also known as the London Bridge Tower or Shard of glass, in London. His latest project is the natural history museum the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. In 1998, he won the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Source-Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renzo_Piano

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An insightful and lively discussion with Pritzker Prize Winners Jean Nouvel who won this year along with Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid and Renzo Piano on the Charlie Rose show from June 5, 2008. (56:00 min video)

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