Charles-ÉdouardJeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930. His career spanned five decades, and he designed buildings …
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2019-06-20Le Corbusier
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2019-06-18Winy Maas
Wilhelmus “Winy” Maas (born 1959 in Schijndel) is a Dutch architect, landscape architect, professor and urbanist. In 1993 together with Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries he set up MVRDV. Early work such as the television center Villa VPRO and the housing estate for elderly WoZoCo, both in the Netherlands, have brought him international …
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2019-05-16kengo kuma
Kengo Kuma is a Japanese architect and professor in the Department of Architecture (Graduate School of Engineering) at the University of Tokyo. Frequently compared to contemporaries Shigeru Ban and Kazuyo Sejima, Kuma is also noted for his prolific writings. Early life and education Kuma was born in Yokohama and attended Eiko Gakuen junior and …
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2019-05-08Frank Owen Gehry
Frank Owen Gehry, (February 28, 1929) is a Canadian-born American architect, residing in Los Angeles. A number of his buildings, including his private residence, have become world-renowned attractions. His works are cited as being among the most important works of contemporary architecture in the 2010 World Architecture Survey, which led Vanity Fair to label him …
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2019-05-05Bjarke Ingels
Bjarke Bundgaard Ingels born 2 October (1974) is a Danish architect, founder and creative partner of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), widely known for buildings that defy convention while incorporating sustainable development principles and bold sociological concepts. In Denmark, Ingels became well known after designing two housing complexes in Ørestad: VM Houses and Mountain Dwellings. In …
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2019-05-03Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano is One of the best-known architects of the modern age, Renzo Piano (1937) has half a century of work all over the world in a variety of disciplines behind him. Piano graduated from Politecnico di Milano in 1964 and gained experience in Philadelphia and London, but the most important factor in his education …
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2019-05-03Daniel Libeskind
Daniel Libeskind (born May 12, 1946) is a Polish-American architect, artist, professor and set designer. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect. His buildings include the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, the extension to the Denver Art Museum in the United States, the Grand Canal …
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2019-04-28Norman Foster
Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, OM, RA (born 1 June 1935) is a British architect whose company, Foster + Partners, maintains an international design practice famous for high-tech architecture. He is the President of the Norman Foster Foundation. The Norman Foster Foundation promotes interdisciplinary thinking and research to help new generations of …
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2019-04-26Remment Lucas
Remment Lucas “Rem” Koolhaas ( born 17 November 1944) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Koolhaas studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Koolhaas is …
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2019-04-24Frank Lloyd Wright
(June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed. Wright believed in designing structures that were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was best exemplified by Fallingwater (1935), …
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2019-04-24Zaha Hadid
(Arabic: زها حديد Zaha Hadid; 31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi-British architect. She was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 2004. She received the UK’s most prestigious architectural award, the Stirling Prize, in 2010 and 2011. In 2012, she was made a Dame by Elizabeth II for services to architecture, and in 2015 she became …
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