2012 AIA Twenty-five Year Award Recipient / Gehry Residence

The Twenty-Five Year Award is conferred on a building that has stood the test of time for 25 to 35 years as an embodiment of architectural excellence. The Gehry Residence — a seemingly ad hoc collection of raw, workmanlike materials wrapped around an unassuming two-story clapboard bungalow — found a literal, but unexpected, answer to the question of neighborhood context, and used it to forever re-shape the formal and material boundaries of architecture