While working on a monumental fish sculpture for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Frank Gehry’s office developed its own software to manage the complexities of the project and gain greater control of the design and construction process. During the design of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao in the late 1990s, they refined this software into what became Digital Project. By 2002, Gehry Technologies (GT) was born. A spin-off from the design office, GT offered architects the software and expertise that came from realizing Gehry Partners’ complex buildings.
On Tuesday, GT revealed it has spun off Digital Project into an independent company, Digital Project Inc. This followed Monday's announcement that Trimble Navigation Limited—a company that may not be familiar by name, but one whose products are widely known and used—acquired GT (but not Digital Project) for an undisclosed amount.
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