One of the world's leading architects, Frank Gehry, will
     deliver the annual Hagey Lecture at UW on November 5.
     Details of Gehry's visit were announced last week.
 
          Spanning three decades, Gehry's
      acclaimed architectural design work has produced successful
     public and private buildings in North America, Japan and
     Europe. Raised in Toronto, he moved with his family in 1947
     to Los Angeles at age 17.
 
          Dr. Jay Thomson, chair of the Hagey Lecture committee,
     says Gehry has close contacts with UW's school of
     architecture and will bring his top-flight design team here
     to celebrate the school's 25th anniversary.
 
          Gehry's public lecture, entitled "Current Work", will
     be given Thursday, November 5, at 7:30 p.m. in Federation
     Hall. The next day, at 9:30 a.m., he will lead a workshop.
     Tickets to both events will be free.
 
          Now principal-in-charge for Frank O. Gehry and
     Associates, which he founded in 1962, Gehry was awarded the
     prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize in May 1989 for
     significant contributions to "humanity and the built
     environment".
 
          The same year, he was named a trustee of the American
     Academy in Rome. More recently, he has received the Wolf
     Prize in Art (architecture) and was made a fellow of the
     American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters as well
     as of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
 
          In 1974, Gehry was elected to the College of Fellows of
     the American Institute of Architects. He has received many
     national and regional awards from the professional
     institute.
 
          Gehry's work is noted for its inclusive approach,
     characterized by a particular concern for the ways people
     move through and live and work comfortably within the spaces
     he has created.
 
          "His buildings are powerful essays in primal geometric
     form and . . . materials, and from an esthetic standpoint
     they are among the most profound and brilliant works of
     architecture of our time," architecture critic Paul
     Goldberger wrote in the New York Times.
 
          Aside from students and faculty in architecture,
     Thomson says, the Gehry approach will appeal to people in
     diverse areas such as urban and regional planning,
     ergonomics, systems design, fine arts, sociology,
     psychology, kinesiology, and health and safety.
 
          "Indeed, his work appeals to anyone who wishes to
     reflect on how we interact with our living space," Thomson
     says.
 
          Major professional journals have featured Gehry's work,
     and it has been reviewed by Newsweek, Time, Art in America
     and the Wall Street Journal, as well as by international
     publications such as Le Monde and L'Express and Frankfurter
     Allgemeine.
 
          He has received honorary degrees from the California
     College of Arts and Crafts, Technical University of Nova
     Scotia, Rhode Island School of Design, California Institute
     of Arts and Otis Arts Institute of Parsons School of Design.
 
          For five separate years during the 1980's, he held the
     Charlotte Davenport Professorship in Architecture at Yale
     University. As well, he held the Eliot Noyes Chair at
     Harvard University in 1984.
 
          In addition, Gehry has been awarded the Arnold W.
     Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture from the American
     Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
 
          His drawings and models -- plus designs for cardboard
     furniture and his interpretations (in various forms and
     materials) of fish -- have been exhibited in museums around
     the world.
 
          A major retrospective exhibit of his work was organized
     by the Walker Art Centre in October 1986. It travelled
     throughout North America from Minneapolis to Atlanta,
     Houston, Toronto, Los Angeles and New York City (at The
     Whitney Museum of American Art).
 
          Gehry now lives in Santa Monica, California, with his
     wife, Berta, and two sons.  The family lives in a house
     discovered by Berta and remodelled by Gehry.