Test Your Gehry Knowledge: What Christian College Buildings Did He Design?

Frank Gehry’s campus work has been attracting attention since the 1980s, when his buildings for Loyola Marymount University’s law school and for the University of California at Irvine’s computer-science program got big spreads in Architecture magazine. But here’s a college with Gehry buildings that may not be on your list: William Jessup University.

Not ringing any bells? The institution, formerly San Jose Christian College, changed its name in 2003, when it purchased a 125-acre site in the Sacramento suburb of Rocklin from Herman Miller Inc., the furniture company. The site included offices and three big warehouses by Mr. Gehry, a small building by his friend Stanley Tigerman, and landscaping by Peter Walker — names almost no one at the college knew at the time, according to a 2003 Metropolis article.

Now, though, the Gehry buildings are a source of pride for the 550-student university. According to a Saturday article in The Sacramento Bee, the institution spent $27-million refitting the warehouses with housing, classrooms, a campus center, and athletics facilities. A former furniture showroom became a chapel.

But with the college now seeking space for hundreds of additional students, it’s planning new housing, parking, dining, and athletics facilities, to the tune of some $25-million — and Mr. Gehry will not be doing the designing, according to a university news release. Instead, architects for the expansion are the Taylor Teter Partnership.