The Century of Gehry

At Serralves in Porto, The Century of Gehry traces Frank Gehry’s architecture through movement, material instinct, and the charged spaces between buildings. Installed in the Álvaro Siza Wing, the exhibition gathers nineteen projects across eight thematic chapters, moving from the raw domestic experiment of his Santa Monica house to the titanium surfaces of the Guggenheim Bilbao and the sweeping forms of Walt Disney Concert Hall.

The show brings sketches, models, archival material, and unbuilt projects into conversation with Gehry’s long creative process. It also follows his exchanges with artists and architects, including Álvaro Siza, whose friendship with Gehry helped connect Los Angeles and Portugal through shared work and ongoing dialogue. Across the exhibition, architecture appears as something restless and physical, shaped by intuition, structure, and a lifelong search for forms that can still surprise the city.