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32 P E R S P E C T I V E | J A N UA RY / F E B R UA RY 2 0 1 6 news Above: Installation photograph, "Frank Gehry," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, September 13, 2015–March 20, 2016. This exhibition is organized by the Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. FRANK GEHRY MODELS AT LACMA by Tom Wilkins, Awards Committee Chair The Los Angeles County Museum of Art's comprehensive Frank Gehry retrospective traces the influential architect's career from the early 1960s to today. Gehry, who is best known for his expressive, sculptural buildings, opened his first office in Los Angeles in 1962 and has gone on to revolutionize architecture's aesthetics, its social and cultural role, and its relationship to urban environments. The show at LACMA, which includes a plethora of drawings and models, aims to illustrate Gehry's creative process as well as spotlight the key role he has played in developing groundbreaking new systems of digital design and fabrication. Frank Gehry presents a comprehensive examination of his extraordinary body of work from the early 1960s—he established his firm in Los Angeles in 1962—to the present, featuring over two hundred drawings, many of which have never been seen publicly, and sixty five models that illuminate the evolution of Gehry's thinking. Tracing the arc of his career, the exhibition focuses on two main themes: urbanism and the development of new systems of digital design and fabrication, including his use of CATIA, a software tool used in the aeronautics and automobile industries, which allows the digital manipulation of 3-D representations. This retrospective offers an opportunity to reflect on the development of Gehry's work and to understand the processes of one of the great architectural minds. © Gehry Partners, LLP, Los Angeles; Photograph © Frederik Nilsen