In recent years Frank Gehry has served as a architecture  professor at Yale, Columbia and USC, and serves on the board of architecture at USC.  Gehry was the 1989 recipient of the prestigious Pritzker Prize which is an annual award honoring a living architect “whose built work demonstrates combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.”  Gehry has also played himself on tv shows like the Simpsons.  Gehry’s recent and ongoing projects include a new Guggenheim facility in Abu Dhabi, the new Facebook headquarters in California and a memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower in Washington, D.C., slated to be constructed at the foot of Capitol Hill.