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Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid, CBE (born 31 October 1950) is a notable British Iraqi deconstructivist architect. Zaha Hadid was born in 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq. She received a degree in mathematics from the American University of Beirut before moving to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. After graduating she worked with her former [...]
Continue reading...Toyo Ito
16. September 2009
Toyo Ito (1941-) is a Japanese architect known for creating extremely conceptual architecture, in which he seeks to simultaneously express the physical and virtual "worlds". He is a leading exponent of architecture that addresses the contemporary notion of a "simulated" city. considered "one of the world’s most innovative and influential architects." Ito was born in [...]
Continue reading...Thom Mayne
16. September 2009
Thom Mayne (b. January 19, 1942 in Waterbury, Connecticut) is a widely recognized Los Angeles based architect. Educated at University of Southern California (1969) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1978, Mayne helped found the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-ARC) in 1972. Since then he has held teaching positions at SCI-ARC, [...]
Continue reading...Tadao Ando
16. September 2009
Tadao Ando (born September 13, 1941, in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese architect whose approach to architecture was once categorized as critical regionalism. Ando has led a storied life, working as a truck driver and boxer prior to settling on the profession of architecture, despite never having taken formal training in the field. He works [...]
Continue reading...Sverre Fehn
16. September 2009
Sverre Fehn (August 14, 1924 – February 23, 2009) was a Norwegian architect. Fehn was born in Kongsberg, Buskerud. He received his architectural education shortly after World War II in Oslo, and quickly became the leading Norwegian architect of his generation. In 1952–1953, during travels in Morocco, he discovered primitive architecture, which was to deeply [...]
Continue reading...Steven Holl
16. September 2009
Steven Holl (born December 9, 1947, Bremerton, Washington) is an American academic architect and watercolorist best known for the 1998 Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, Finland, the 2003 Simmons Hall at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., and the recently completed Linked Hybrid mixed-use complex in Beijing, China. In June 2007 the much celebrated Bloch Building [...]
Continue reading...Shigeru Ban
16. September 2009
Shigeru Ban ( born 1957 in Tokyo, Japan) is an accomplished Japanese and international architect, most famous for his innovative work with paper, particularly recycled cardboard paper tubes used to quickly and efficiently house disaster victims. Shigeru Ban was the winner in 2005 at age 48 of the 40th annual Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture [...]
Continue reading...Santiago Calatrava
16. September 2009
Santiago Calatrava Valls (born July 28, 1951) is an internationally recognized and award-winning Valencian Spanish architect, sculptor and structural engineer whose principal office is in Zurich, Switzerland. Classed now among the elite designers of the world, he has offices in Zurich, Paris and Valencia. Calatrava was born in Benimámet, an old municipality now integrated as [...]
Continue reading...Samuel Mockbee
16. September 2009
Samuel "Sambo" Mockbee (23 December 1944–30 December 2001) was an American architect and a co-founder of the Auburn University Rural Studio program in Hale County, Alabama. Mockbee’s architectural partnership with Coleman Coker was recognized for an ingenious and quirky brand of regionalism. Mockbee was born in Meridian, Mississippi. He served two years in the U.S. [...]
Continue reading...Rogelio Salmona
16. September 2009
Rogelio Salmona (1929 – October 3, 2007) was a Colombian architect of Sephardic and Occitan descent. He was noted for his extensive use of red brick in his buildings and for using natural shapes like spirals, radial geometry and curves in his designs. During the latter part of his life, Salmona gained renown thanks to [...]
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16. September 2009
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