Architect Frank Gehry Conjures An Astonishing, Sculptural Home In Silicon Valley
Massy Mehdipour is not your typical Silicon Valley mogul. She began her career at Bechtel, the multinational engineering and construction firm where she managed projects around the world, and for all her experience in digital technology—she has founded two companies and is a major venture investor—she has always felt equally comfortable in the realm of real-world architecture and building. She has been a longtime client of the interior designer Paul Vincent Wiseman and has commissioned vacation houses from the architects Ricardo Legorreta and Peter Bohlin. When it came time to plan a new home base for herself in Silicon Valley, she saw no reason to lower her architectural ambitions. She was a longtime admirer of Frank Gehry, whose work she viewed as the benchmark against which others were measured, and beside whom everyone else, she decided, seemed wanting. Mehdipour set out to hire the celebrated architect, even though at the time—a little more than a decade ago—he was taking on few residential projects.
She went to see Gehry in his office in Los Angeles. “When Frank asked me why I wanted him to design my house, I told him that I wanted to bring his creativity to Northern California,” Mehdipour said. “People in this area needed to see it. I told him that I wanted this house to be his work of art.”
What followed was a lengthy, deeply collaborative design process that pushed expectations of what a private residence could be. Gehry responded with a concept that was both expressive and rigorous, a sculptural home defined by sinuous metal forms and intersecting volumes that appear to cascade across the site. The exterior folds and curves in a play of shifting reflections, echoing the movement of light throughout the day, while the interiors unfold in a series of interconnected living spaces that feel simultaneously intimate and monumental. Mehdipour embraced the architect’s vision fully, allowing Gehry’s experimentation to drive decisions on materials, spatial composition, and structural innovation. Advanced engineering solutions were required to bring the unconventional geometry to life, and local craftspeople worked alongside global specialists to shape each element into its final form. The result is not merely a residence but a living artwork—a testament to ambition, collaboration, and the belief that architecture can embody the same spirit of invention that defines Silicon Valley itself.
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