Buildings designed by Frank Gehry tend to function both as city landmarks and tourist attractions, and they certainly don’t come cheap. His works, which have been cited as among the most important works of contemporary architecture by World Architecture Survey, include include the titanium-covered Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, constructed at a cost of $100 million, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, which came in at around $274 million (the parking garage alone cost $110 million). But now “the most important architect of our age” has a new feather in his cap: a 1,780-sqaure-foot green duplex in New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward, which sold for $200,000.

Gehry is one of 21 local and international architects recruited by Brad Pitt as part of the actor’s effort to build