Frank Owen Gehry is a Canadian-born American architect, residing in Los Angeles. Frank Gehry was born Ephraim Goldberg on February 28, 1929, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He studied architecture at the University of Southern California (1949–51; 1954) and city planning at Harvard University (1956–57). After working for several architectural firms, he established his own company, Frank O. Gehry & Associates, in 1962 and established its successor, Gehry Partners, in 2002. In 1999, he received the AIA Gold Medal. In 1961, he moved to Paris where he worked for architects Pereira and Lickman. In 1962, Gehry established a practice in Los Angeles with another architect[9] which became Frank Gehry and Associates in 1967 and then Gehry Partners in 2001. Gehry's earliest commissions were all in Southern California, where he designed a number of innovative commercial structures such as Santa Monica Place (1980) and residential buildings such as the eccentric Norton House (1984) in Venice, California.