It\u2019s a little hard to find given the trees and the high wall, but there it is, architect Frank Gehry\u2019s Santa Monica family home, smack dab at the corner of 22nd<\/sup>\u00a0and Washington Streets.\u00a0 Frank and his wife Berta bought their conventional Dutch colonial family home in 1977 and quickly started to tinker with it, adding corrugated steel cladding, chain link fencing and angular protrusions which drastically altered the look of the place. It\u2019s difficult to make out the shape of the original, although parts of it, notably the roofline, are still visible from certain angles.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gehry was experimenting with shapes and materials and what better way to play with space and volume than to experiment with his own house? His neighbours were not impressed. His penchant for large flat planes interrupted by sharp angles, a design feature of his Santa Monica home, can be seen in his Loyola Law School, Los Angeles,\u00a0 which he designed a year later and in the ultra modern Vitra Design Museum<\/a>, built in Weil am Rhein, Germany in 1989. Shortly afterwards he moved away from angularity in favour of the undulating, curved masses for which he\u2019s recognized. The Guggenheim Museum in Bilboa Spain<\/a> is arguably the most famous.<\/p>\n