Gehry Technologies announced in October of 2011 that co-founder and chairman, Frank Gehry, has brought together many leading architects and designers to form a strategic alliance to transform the building industry and the practice of design. The alliance intends to enable new approaches to design through technology, to create more effective industry processes and a higher quality built environment. By applying and innovating new technology solutions to old problems such as waste, delay, and miscommunication, the alliance aims to lead industry process change. This group will work collectively with Gehry Technologies (GT) to realize and demonstrate better ways of achieving project outcomes: higher quality, more efficient and cost effective projects. Most importantly, the alliance wants to ensure a context for professional work where the best designs and the best facilities can be realized.
Initial alliance and board members include David Childs, Chairman Emeritus of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Massimo Colomban, founder of Permasteelisa; Zaha Hadid, founder of Zaha Hadid Architects; Greg Lynn, professor of architecture at UCLA and the Applied Arts University in Vienna; landscaper architect Laurie Olin; Wolf D. Prix, CEO of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU; David Rockwell, founder of Rockwell Group; architect and urban planner Moshe Safdie; Matthias Schuler, director of TRANSSOLAR Energietechnik; Patrik Schumacher, designer at Zaha Hadid Architects; Ben van Berkel, co-founder of UNStudio; and author Richard Saul Wurman.