Breaking News : Frank Gehry, the Canadian–American architect who made magic with crumpled titanium and fish curves in buildings like the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, has died.

Frank Gehry – A visionary Piscean architect with transforming Scorpionic emotional depth
He was inspired by pop art, what he called ‘cheapskate aesthetic’, to create buildings that were almost art, almost sculpture – and at times an assemblage of a hardware store. His increasing use of the computer latterly was used to realize extraordinarily complex and innovative forms.

Born February 28, 1929 in Toronto he was the son of Jewish immigrants, and moved to California in his late teens. After a stint as a lorry driver, he gained an architecture degree, did military service, and had a slow start in the building design field. By the mid 1980s he produced the California Aerospace Museum with a F104 Starfighter hovering over a giant door; and a restaurant, Rebecca’s, in Venice, California featured giant trees, an octopus, alligator and several fish hanging about its interior.

In the late 1990s the Bilbao Guggenheim in Spain put him on the world map and was hailed as the leading example of the new computer-led design, a piece of urban sculpture, writhing along the riverbank, part palazzo, part ship. In two years, his museum was said to have added $400m to the city’s fortunes.

Fish were a constant theme in his work which with a Pisces Sun and a creative Water Grand Trine with Pluto and a Scorpio Moon is maybe not surprising. He also significantly had an inspirational, attention-demanding Fire Grand Trine of Neptune in Leo trine Saturn in Sagittarius trine Venus in Aries, formed into a Kite by Saturn opposing Mars in Gemini, making Mars his driving planet. His Sun was also trine Pluto and sextile Jupiter in Taurus. He would rarely doubt his ideas or his ability to succeed. His Mercury in forward-looking Aquarius may have been on the focal point of a Fixed T square to Jupiter opposition his Scorpio Moon. His chart oozes confidence.

Architect Frank Gehry, a colossus in his field known for gargantuan sculptural buildings of curved steel, including Disney Hall in Los Angeles and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, has died, according to the architect’s chief of staff.

Gehry was born in Ontario, Canada, in 1929 and died at his home in California on Dec. 4, according to Meaghan Lloyd, Gehry’s chief of staff. He was 96. Lloyd said in an email that Gehry died “earlier this morning at his home in Santa Monica after a brief respiratory illness.”