In recent years, Gehry's output has expanded and diversified. He has embarked on a major project to develop the Los Angeles River, with far-reaching social implications. Several other projects, one of which will make a decisive contribution to downtown revitalization, mark his return to a city that had both neglected and envied him.
At the same time, the construction of Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Silicon Valley, marked a threshold in the relationship between corporate and studio space. Whereas during the twentiethcentury , architects had endeavored to shape their workplaces in the image of factories or engineering offices, the relationship has in some ways been reversed, with Mark Zuckerberg's company making the hangar in which Gehry's agency is informally deployed the model for its own offices.
Following on from the Fondation Vuitton, Gehry has launched a study for the reconstruction of the former Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires, whose volumes he will retain, while creating a new concert hall. Finally, the Fondation Luma, which he will complete in 2018 in Arles, gives him the opportunity to create a new type of interaction between artistic creation and pedagogy, returning to the utopian approaches experienced in the Los Angeles of the 1960s.
