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Robert Venturi
Robert Charles Venturi, Jr. (born June 25, 1925 in Philadelphia) is an American architect and founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. Robert Venturi and his wife and partner, Denise Scott Brown, are regarded among the most influential architects of the twentieth century, both through their architecture and planning, and theoretical writings and teaching. Venturi was awarded the Pritzker Prize in Architecture in 1991. He is also known for coining the maxim "Less is Read more [...]
Continue reading...Richard Meier
16. September 2009
Richard Meier (born October 12, 1934) is an American architect, whose rationalist buildings make prominent use of the color white. Meier was born in Newark, New Jersey. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University in 1957, worked for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill briefly in 1959, and then for Marcel Breuer for three years, prior to starting his own practice in New York in 1963. Identified as one of The New York Five in 1972, his commission of the Getty Center in Los Angeles, Read more [...]
Continue reading...Ricardo Legorreta
16. September 2009
Ricardo Legorreta Vilchis is a Mexican architect. He was born in a taxi in Mexico City on May 1, 1931. He studied architecture at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. His work is easily recognized for its brightly-colored geometric shapes. Legorreta is a disciple of Luis Barragan and carried Barragan's ideas to a wider realm Barragan, in the 1940s and 1950's amalgamated tradition and the modern movement in architecture yet his work is mostly limited to domestic architecture. Legorreta uses Read more [...]
Continue reading...James Stirling
16. September 2009
Sir James Frazer Stirling FRIBA (22 April 1926 in Glasgow) was a Pritzker Prize-winning British Architect and among the most important and influential architects of the second half of the 20th century. He is perhaps best known as one of a number of young architects in various countries who from the 1950s on questioned and subverted the compositional and theoretical precepts of the first Modern Movement. Stirling's development of an agitated, mannered reinterpretation of those precepts – much influenced Read more [...]
Continue reading...Jaime Lerner
16. September 2009
Jaime Lerner (born December 17, 1937) was governor of the state of Parana, in southern Brazil. He is renowned as an architect and urban planner, having been mayor of Curitiba, capital of Parana, three times (1971–75, 1979–84 and 1989–92). In 1994, Lerner was elected governor of Parana, and was reelected in 1998. Lerner was born to a Jewish family originally from Poland in Curitiba. He graduated from the Escola de Arquitetura da Universidade Federal do Parana; (Architecture School of the Federal Read more [...]
Continue reading...Jacques Herzog
16. September 2009
Jacques Herzog is one of the most successful architects in the world. He's best known as one of two lead architects of the Beijing National Stadium, which was used for the 2008 Summer Olympics. Jacques Herzog was born on April 19, 1950, in Basel, Switzerland. By coincidence, this was the same year that another man named Pierre de Meuron was born. Both men acquired an interest in the arts and design, which led them to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. As luck would have it, Jacques Read more [...]
Continue reading...I. M. Pei
16. September 2009
Ieoh Ming Pei (born April 26, 1917), commonly known by his initials I. M. Pei, is a Pritzker Prize-winning Chinese-born American architect, known as the last master of high modernist architecture. Pei was born in Canton, China on April 26, 1917, to a prominent family from Suzhou. His father, a banker, was later the director of the Bank of China and the governor of the Central Bank of China. His family later moved to Shanghai, but resided in his native city Suzhou, a city near Shanghai. The family's Read more [...]
Continue reading...Harry Seidler
16. September 2009
Harry Seidler, AC OBE (25 June 1923 Vienna — 9 March 2006 Sydney) was an Austrian-born Australian architect who is considered to be one of the leading exponents of Modernism's methodology in Australia and the first architect to fully express the principles of the Bauhaus in Australia. Harry Seidler designed more than 180 buildings and he received much recognition for his contribution to Architecture of Australia. Some of his comments and building designs have stirred significant controversy. Read more [...]
Continue reading...Hans Hollein
16. September 2009
Hans Hollein, (born March 30, 1934 in Vienna) is an Austrian architect and designer. Hollein achieved a diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1956, then attended the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1959 and the University of California, Berkeley in 1960. He has worked for various agencies in Sweden and in America before returning to Vienna, founding his own agency in 1964. In 1985 Hollein was awarded the Pritzker Prize. In 1963/64 and 1966 Hollein was a guest professor in the Washington Read more [...]
Continue reading...Hakon Ahlberg
16. September 2009
Hakon Ahlberg (June 10,1891, Harplinge – March 12, 1984, Stockholm) was a Swedish architect, editor and author, best known as the official architect for the repair and restoration of Gripsholm Castle near the town of Mariefred in central Sweden. He was one of the founding members and first president of SAR, the Swedish Architects’ Association, and was well-known as an active participant in architectural debate in Sweden, and was editor-in-chief of the Swedish architectural journals Arkitekten Read more [...]
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16. September 2009
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