Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Moves with family to Los Angeles.
Receives Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California and goes to work for Victor Gruen Associates.
Gehry Partners, LLP founded in Santa Monica. 1968 Designs the O'Neill Hay Barn in San Juan Capistrano, California.
Named recipient of the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Designs Cabrillo Marine Museum in San Pedro, California and the Spiller Residence, Venice, California.
Opening of Santa Monica Place, a shopping mall in Santa Monica, California.
Designs the Norton House in Venice, California.
Designs the Chiat/Day Building, an office complex in Venice, California.
Designs Vitra Design Museum in Weil-am-Rhein, Germany. Awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize, honoring "significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture."
Designs the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota and the University of Toledo Center for the Visual Arts in Toledo, Ohio.
Becomes first recipient of the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Award for lifetime contribution to the arts.
Designs Anaheim Ice, a hockey rink in Anaheim, California, and Dancing House (otherwise known as "Fred and Ginger"), an apartment building in Prague, Czech Republic.
Designs Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Bilbao, Spain.
Receives the National Medal of Arts. Is first recipient of the Friedrich Kiesler Prize.
