The architect’s signature titanium–covered Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain, opens.
Dozens of major works worldwide, often with his trademark dramatic, but non–functional components…works in progress include Guggenheim Museum, Abu Dhabi (expected completion 2011).
Iconoclastic architect born Ephraim Owen Goldberg into a Jewish family in Toronto, Canada in 1929…a ‘dropout’ from Harvard Graduate School of Design in his late 20s…he currently teaches at Columbia (NY) and Yale (CT).