Los Angeles university SCI-Arc has granted Frank Gehry an honorary masters degree in recognition of his "unparalleled" impact on architecture.
The 90-year-old architect was awarded the masters of architecture degree at a graduation ceremony held at SCI-Arc's campus in Los Angeles on 8 September.
After receiving his masters diploma, Gehry gave a speech reflecting on his career and relationship with SCI-Arc, where he is a faculty member and trustee.
Gehry was awarded the honorary degree during a graduation ceremony at SCI-Arc
"I started teaching at SCI-Arc way back, before all of you were born probably," Gehry said. "There were some rough times ? they didn't know who I was or what I was."
"I didn't know who I was or what I was either," he continued. "But we got through it." Gehry has honorary degrees from Harvard, Yale and Princeton
It joins several honorary degrees that Gehry has been awarded from universities around the world, including University of Oxford, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), University of Technology Sydney, and America's Ivy League schools Yale, Princeton and Harvard to name a few.
Frank Gehry was born Frank Owen Goldberg in Toronto, Canada in 1929, and studied architecture and planning the University of Southern California and Harvard's Graduate School of Design (GSD).

He set up his firm Gehry Partners in 1962 in Los Angeles, and continues to practice to this day. His current projects include the decad...