Build me a cocktail

Published June 4, 2008 4:00am ET



That was Frank Gehry, arguably America’s most famous architect, sipping cocktails on the patio outside Blue Duck Tavern at the Park Hyatt on Monday afternoon.

The modernist was joined by French architect Jean Nouvel and Italian architect Renzo Piano of the Whitney Museum in New York City. Nouvel was being interviewed for French Television News for his win as the 2008 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate.

Gehry won the prize in 1989.