As Frank Gehry celebrates his 90th birthday, Aaron Betsky looks back over the architect's seven-decade-long career of projects that include "sliding planes, open frames, slithering fish, dancing blocks, and curving compounds".

It was the day after Christmas. I had told Frank Gehry that my husband I were in town, and he suggested I stop by the office. "Will anybody be there"" I asked. "I will be," said the now 90-year old architect. So, we showed up in the anonymous warehouse in Marina del Rey where he works.
The space was filled with models and the usual mess of a design atelier, though only a handful of the almost two hundred people who work there.
But there Gehry was, sitting in the middle of the space on a rolling chair, discussing the ins and outs of one of his designs for the expansion of the Colburn School of Music in Downtown LA with its project architect, partner Craig Webb. Frank Gehry turns 90 on 28 February 2019
After he greeted me, the first thing he did was to complain that one of his competitors had pointed out his age when they were both vying for a commission; "so unfair and stupid, what does that have to with anything""
And certainly, all that his nine decades have done is to give him more commission and a seemingly unending thirst for new work, new ideas, new forms, and, what is just as important, new collaborators. Gehry has enough status that he can pick and choose his clients, and he only wants to work...