Architect Frank Gehry died on Friday. He was 96.
Meaghan Lloyd, Gehry's chief of staff, confirmed his death in an email to Reuters, writing that Gehry died "earlier this morning at his home in Santa Monica after a brief respiratory illness."
French billionaire Bernard Arnault paid tribute to Gehry following his passing.
"Frank Gehry—who possessed an unparalleled gift for shaping forms, pleating glass like canvas, making it dance like a silhouette—will long endure as a living source of inspiration for Louis Vuitton as well as for all the Maisons of the LVMH group," he said in a statement.
Gehry's notable buildings included the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Dancing House in Prague, the Experience Music Project in Seattle, and the 8 Spruce residential tower in New York.
Gehry's critics accused him of disregarding function in favor of form. His Disney Center was lambasted by various critics as "a pile of broken crockery," "a fortune cookie gone berserk," "deconstructionist trash," and "an emptied waste basket."