Featured Famous Architects
  • Leading British modern architect noted for his High-Tech structures. After service in the RAF he received his architectural training at Manchester University School of Architecture (1956-61) and Yale University (1961-2)....0March 31, 2009

    Norman Foster

    Leading British modern architect noted for his High-Tech structures. After service in the RAF he received his architectural training at Manchester University School of Architecture (1956-61) and Yale University (1961-2)….

  • Prominent New York avant-garde critic, architect and theorist. Eisenman studied at Cornell and Columbia Universities and then at Cambridge, England. He taught at Cambridge, Princeton and the Cooper Union in...0March 24, 2009

    Peter Eisenman

    Prominent New York avant-garde critic, architect and theorist. Eisenman studied at Cornell and Columbia Universities and then at Cambridge, England. He taught at Cambridge, Princeton and the Cooper Union in…

  • Frank O. Gehry, one of the first “punk-style” famous architects, whose curious, irreverent buildings have been described as “functional sculpture” and Deconstructivist architecture. Although he was born in Canada, Gehry...0March 2, 2009

    Frank O. Gehry

    Frank O. Gehry, one of the first “punk-style” famous architects, whose curious, irreverent buildings have been described as “functional sculpture” and Deconstructivist architecture. Although he was born in Canada, Gehry…

  • Renzo Piano – Leading Italian architect and designer concerned with technological innovations and environmentally balanced buildings. From 1959 to 1964 Piano studied at the Milan Politecnico, where he subsequently taught...0March 2, 2009

    Renzo Piano

    Renzo Piano – Leading Italian architect and designer concerned with technological innovations and environmentally balanced buildings. From 1959 to 1964 Piano studied at the Milan Politecnico, where he subsequently taught…

  • Louis Isadore Kahn was one of the foremost architects of the second half of the 20 century. He went to the United States in 1905, and having mastered the Beaux-Arts-inspired...0March 2, 2009

    Louis I. Kahn

    Louis Isadore Kahn was one of the foremost architects of the second half of the 20 century. He went to the United States in 1905, and having mastered the Beaux-Arts-inspired…

  • One of the American-naturalized famous architects, I.M. Pei (Pei Ieoh Ming) is known for his large scale and sophisticated glass-clad buildings including the controversial glass pyramid at the Louvre Museum,...0March 2, 2009

    I.M. Pei (Pei Ieoh Ming)

    One of the American-naturalized famous architects, I.M. Pei (Pei Ieoh Ming) is known for his large scale and sophisticated glass-clad buildings including the controversial glass pyramid at the Louvre Museum,…

  • Le Corbusier was the most important, influential and famous architect of the 20th century. Swiss by birth and trained as an artist in his home town under a fastidious teacher,...0March 2, 2009

    Le Corbusier

    Le Corbusier was the most important, influential and famous architect of the 20th century. Swiss by birth and trained as an artist in his home town under a fastidious teacher,…

  • Michael Graves was one of the major figures of American Post-Modernism. Graves studied at the University of Cincinatti, Ohio, and then at Harvard. He was a fellow at the American...0March 2, 2009

    Michael Graves

    Michael Graves was one of the major figures of American Post-Modernism. Graves studied at the University of Cincinatti, Ohio, and then at Harvard. He was a fellow at the American…

  • Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a very famous architect for his much-misunderstood dictum “Less is More”. He sought to create contemplative, emotionally neutral spaces through an architecture based on material...0March 2, 2009

    Mies van der Rohe

    Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a very famous architect for his much-misunderstood dictum “Less is More”. He sought to create contemplative, emotionally neutral spaces through an architecture based on material…