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 04/16/2008
SCAD Style Presents Architect Frank Gehry
 SAVANNAH — SCAD Style, the Savannah College of Art and Design’s signature style and design event, will present a lecture by renowned architect Frank Gehry April 28, 7:30 p.m., at the Trustees Theater, 216 E. Broughton St. The event is free and open to the public. SCAD Style is being held April 10-May 17.
Raised in Toronto, Canada, Gehry moved with his family to Los Angeles in 1947. He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California in 1954, and studied city planning at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Gehry has built an architectural career that has spanned four decades and produced public and private buildings in America, Europe and Asia. In an article published in The New York Times in November 1989, noted architecture critic Paul Goldberger wrote that Gehry’s “buildings are powerful essays in primal geometric form and ... materials, and from an aesthetic standpoint they are among the most profound and brilliant works of architecture of our time.”
His work has earned him several of the most significant awards in the architectural field. In 1977, Gehry was named recipient of the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1989, he was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize, perhaps the premier accolade of the field, honoring “significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.” In 1992, he received the Wolf Prize in Art from the Wolf Foundation, and in the same year he was named the recipient of the Praemium Imperiale Award by the Japan Art Association to “honor outstanding contributions to the development, popularization and progress of the arts.” In 1994, he became the first recipient of the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Award for lifetime contribution to the arts. In 1998, Gehry received the National Medal of Arts, and he became the first recipient of the Friedrich Kiesler Prize. In 1999, he received the Lotos Medal of Merit from the Lotos Club, and he received the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects. In 2000, Gehry received the Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects, and he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Americans for the Arts. In 2002, Gehry received the Gold Medal for Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Gehry was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects in 1974, and his buildings have received more than 100 national and regional AIA awards.
Gehry’s work has been published widely and his architectural drawings and models have been exhibited in major museums throughout the world. Notable projects include: the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Bilbao, Spain; the DZ Bank Building, a mixed-use building adjacent to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin; Der Neue Zollhof, an office complex in Düsseldorf, Germany; the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Wash.; the Bard College Performing Arts Center in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.; the Peter B. Lewis Campus of the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio; the Jay Pritzker Pavilion and BP Bridge in Millennium Park in Chicago; Maggie’s Centre, a cancer patient care center in Dundee, Scotland; the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis; the University of Toledo Center for the Visual Arts in Toledo, Ohio; and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Current projects include the Lou Ruvo Alzheimer Center in Las Vegas; the Princeton Science Library in Princeton, N.J.; the Hall Winery in Napa Valley, Calif.; the Puente de Vida Museo in Panama City, Panama; and the Hotel Marqués de Riscal in El Ciego, Spain.
Held at various locations at SCAD-Atlanta and SCAD-Savannah, SCAD Style is a month-long series of events featuring world-renowned artists, designers and industry professionals and highlighting several of the college’s programs of study, including fashion, fibers, interior design, industrial design and architecture.
Events surrounding SCAD Style include workshops, lectures, exhibitions and book signings, including fashion designer Lela Rose, interior designer Scott Salvator, senior curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art Paola Antonelli, and the late Stanley Marcus' daughter Jerrie Marcus Smith and granddaughter Allison V. Smith, who will sign copies of their book "A Reflection of a Man," a collection of photographs by Marcus, who served as president and chairman of the board of Neiman Marcus.
In addition, SCAD Style will feature trunk shows by SCAD alumni Claire Sanchez, Jen Swearington, Little by Jenny, Domestic Construction and BAZZdeGRANT. All trunk shows will be held at shopSCAD, 340 Bull St., Savannah, Ga., and shopSCAD Atlanta, 1600 Peachtree St., Atlanta, Ga.
SCAD Style is presented by the Savannah College of Art and Design and sponsored by the Savannah River Landing and Richard and Judy Eckburg.
Media inquiries may be directed to 912.525.5225. For a complete schedule of events at SCAD-Atlanta and SCAD-Savannah, visit .
Named one of Kaplan’s “25 cutting-edge schools with an eye toward the future,” the Savannah College of Art and Design is a private, nonprofit, accredited institution with locations in Atlanta and Savannah, Ga., and in Lacoste, France. Undergraduate and graduate degree programs also are offered online through SCAD-eLearning. The college offers Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Architecture, Master of Arts, Master of Arts in Teaching, Master of Fine Arts, and Master of Urban Design degrees.
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