List of Famous Architects Archive

  • 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)....

    Norman Foster

    Posted on March 31, 2009 | No Comments
    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)....

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  • 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...

    Peter Eisenman

    Posted on March 24, 2009 | No Comments
    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...

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  • 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...

    Frank O. Gehry

    Posted on March 2, 2009 | No Comments
    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...

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  • 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...

    Renzo Piano

    Posted on March 2, 2009 | No Comments
    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...

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  • 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...

    Louis I. Kahn

    Posted on March 2, 2009 | No Comments
    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...

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  • 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,...

    I.M. Pei (Pei Ieoh Ming)

    Posted on March 2, 2009 | No Comments
    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,...

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  • 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,...

    Le Corbusier

    Posted on March 2, 2009 | No Comments
    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,...

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  • 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...

    Michael Graves

    Posted on March 2, 2009 | No Comments
    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...

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  • 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...

    Mies van der Rohe

    Posted on March 2, 2009 | No Comments
    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...

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  • Antoni Gaudi (25 June 1852–10 June 1926) is one of architecture’s most original and unusual talents. Also know as Antonio Gaudí in English, he was one of the Spanish Catalan...

    Antoni Gaudí

    Posted on March 2, 2009 | No Comments
    Antoni Gaudi (25 June 1852–10 June 1926) is one of architecture’s most original and unusual talents. Also know as Antonio Gaudí in English, he was one of the Spanish Catalan...

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  • Frank Lloyd Wright b. Richland Center, Wisconsin, 1867; d. Phoenix, Arizona, 1959. Frank Lloyd Wright was the most talented famous architect of the c20; an American with Welsh ancestry. He...

    Frank Lloyd Wright

    Posted on June 27, 2008 | No Comments
    Frank Lloyd Wright b. Richland Center, Wisconsin, 1867; d. Phoenix, Arizona, 1959. Frank Lloyd Wright was the most talented famous architect of the c20; an American with Welsh ancestry. He...

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  • Louis Henry Sullivan b. Boston, Mass., 1856; d. Chicago, Illinois, 1924. Louis Henry Sullivan, proponent of an American architecture who was in the vanguard of the Modern Movement. As a...

    Louis Henry Sullivan

    Posted on January 9, 2008 | 1 Comment
    Louis Henry Sullivan b. Boston, Mass., 1856; d. Chicago, Illinois, 1924. Louis Henry Sullivan, proponent of an American architecture who was in the vanguard of the Modern Movement. As a...

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  • Eero Saarinen b. Kirkkonummi, Finland, 1910; d. Ann Arbor, Mich. 1961. In a period of developing modern architecture in America, Eero Saarinen became the architect’s architect. He went to the...

    Eero Saarinen

    Posted on December 27, 2007 | No Comments
    Eero Saarinen b. Kirkkonummi, Finland, 1910; d. Ann Arbor, Mich. 1961. In a period of developing modern architecture in America, Eero Saarinen became the architect’s architect. He went to the...

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