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Sverre Fehn
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 influence his future work. Later he moved to Paris, where he worked for two years in the studio of Jean Prouvé, and where he knew Le Corbusier. Read more [...]
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 addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri opened to the public. Holl graduated from the University Read more [...]
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 from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He was profiled by Time Magazine in their projection of 21st century innovators in the field of architecture Read more [...]
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 an urban part of Valencia, Spain, where he pursued undergraduate studies at the Architecture School and Arts and Crafts School. Read more [...]
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. Army as an artillery officer at Fort Benning, Georgia. He enrolled at Auburn University and graduated from the School of Read more [...]
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 awards like the first prize at the 1986, 1988, and 1990 Colombian Architecture Biennials, and the Alvar Aalto Medal in 2006. His works are highly representative of Colombian architecture Read more [...]
Continue reading...Robert Venturi
16. September 2009
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 [...]
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16. September 2009
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