Frank Gehry is Design Principal for the firm of Frank O. Gehry and Associates, Inc., which he established in 1962. Before founding the firm, Gehry worked with architects Victor Gruen and Pereira & Luckman in Los Angeles, and with Andre Remondet in Paris. Raised in Toronto, Canada, Frank Gehry moved with his family to Los Angeles in 1947. Gehry received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California, and he studied City Planning at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. In subsequent years, Gehry has built an  architectural career that has spanned four decades and produced public and private buildings in America, Europe and Asia. Paul Goldberger, noted architecture critic, wrote that Gehry’s building are “powerful essays in primal geometric from and …materials, and from an aesthetic standpoint they are among the most profound and brilliant works of architecture of our time.” Hallmarks of Gehry’s work include particular concern that people exist comfortable within the spaces that he creates, and an insistence that his buildings address the context and culture of their sites.

Thomas Krens is Director and Trustee of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and the Director of the Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Italy, Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, Germany and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain. Prior to his current position, Mr. Krens was Adjunct Professor of Art History at Williams College, Chairman of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and Professor of Art History at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Williams College, a Master’s Degree in Art from the State University of New York at Albany and a MBA from the Yale University School of Management. Currently he is a member of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), serves of the Advisory Boards of the Yale School of Management and the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Aspen Institute Italia in Rome, the Reunion des Musees Nationaux in Paris and the Societe Kandinsky of the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.