these two impatient optimists. frank gech frank gehry has never let population impulse let him defy. i was an outsider from the beginning, he says, so for better or worse, i thrived on it. the child of poor jewish immigrants, frank grew up in los angeles and throughout his life he embraced the spirit of a city defined by an open horizon. he spent his life rethinking shapes and mediums, seemingly the force of gravity itself, the idea of what architecture could be. he decided to up-end, constantly repurposing every material available from titanium to paper towel tubes. he s inspiring our next generation through his advocacy for arts education in our schools. from the guggenheim to chicago s millennium park, our hometown to