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, L’Eplattenier, Charles Edouard Jeanneret (he adopted the pseudonym Le Corbusier only in the early 1920s) was a remarkably talented pupil.
He travelled widely in the Near [...]
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 Academy in Rome for two years and in 1964 started his own practice in Princeton, NJ.
He became a professor at Princeton University in 1972. [...]