Tag Archive | "American architect"
Thom Mayne
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, Cal Poly Pomona and UCLA. He is principal of Morphosis, a renowned architectural office located in Santa Monica, California. Mayne received Read more [...]
Continue reading...Steven Holl
Wednesday, September 16, 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...Samuel Mockbee
Wednesday, September 16, 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...Robert Venturi
Wednesday, September 16, 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
Wednesday, September 16, 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...I. M. Pei
Wednesday, September 16, 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...Gordon Bunshaft
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Gordon Bunshaft (May 9, 1909 – August 6, 1990) was a 20th century architect educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Born in Buffalo, New York where he attended Lafayette High School, an architecturally significant building, Bunshaft was a modernist whose early influences included Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. His best-known design is the Lever House, built as a corporate headquarters for the soap company Lever Brothers. His design for the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Branch Read more [...]
Continue reading...Philip Johnson
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906– January 25, 2005) was an influential American architect. With his thick, round-framed glasses, Johnson was the most recognizable figure in American architecture for decades. In 1930, he founded the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and later (1978), as a trustee, he was awarded an American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and the first Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 1979. He was a student at the Harvard Read more [...]
Continue reading...Peter Walker
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Peter Walker is a landscape architect in the United States. Peter Walker grew up in California and attended the University of California, Berkeley. Walker initially started out in Journalism but quickly changed his field. He received his Bachelors of Science in Landscape Architecture in 1955, and soon moved onto the University of Illinois and studied under Stanley White where he did his graduate studies. The next year, Walker attended Harvard University Graduate School of Design where he received Read more [...]
Continue reading...Nathaniel Owings
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Nathaniel Alexander Owings (February 5, 1903 - June 13, 1984) was an American architect, a founding partner of Skidmore Owings and Merrill (SOM), which became one of the largest architectural firms in the United States and the world. Owings viewed skyscrapers as his firm's specialty. His reputation rested on his ability to be what he called "the catalyst," the person in his firm who ironed out differences among clients, contractors and planning commissions. Owings was born in 1903 in Indianapolis, Read more [...]
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