Frank Gehry, born 1929 in Toronto, Canada, earned a degree in architecture from the University of Southern California before studying urban planning at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. In 1962 he founded the architectural firm Frank Gehry & Associates in Los Angeles. He designed the cardboard furniture series Easy Edges between 1969-72; The projects he did for Vitra are: in 1994 Vitra Center (Vitra's Headquarters), Birsfelden near Basel, in 1989 the Vitra Design Museum and manufacturing facility, Gehry’s first building in Europe, Vitra Campus, Weil am Rhein.