Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

male, deceased (1959)
architect, Modernist architect, from Wisconsin, Architecturaltheoretician, Unitarian Universalist, American
Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8 1867 - April 9 1959) was one of the world's most prominent and influential architects. He developed a series of highly...

Vitruvius

male
Golden Age Latin author, Latin writer, Campania, Fano, cognomen, Architecturaltheoretician
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (born ca. 80/70 BC?; died ca. 25 BC) was a Roman writer, architect and engineer, active in the 1st century BC.
Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier

male, deceased (1965)
Modernist architect, Swiss urban planner, architect, From Chandigarh, modern architecture, writer…Architecturaltheoretician
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, who chose to be known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss and later French, (Swiss-born) architect and writer, who is famous...
Christopher Alexander

Christopher Alexander

male, 73 years old
Design researcher, University of California, Berkeley faculty, pattern language, Architecturaltheoretician, Old Oundelian, University of California, Berkeley
Christopher Alexander (born October 4, 1936 in Vienna, Austria) is an architect noted for his theories about design, and for more than 200 building...
Rem Koolhaas

Rem Koolhaas

male, 65 years old
amo, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, architect, Architectural Association School of Architecture, rotterdam, Ole Bouman…Architecturaltheoretician, architectural theory, architectural theorist
Remment Koolhaas (born November 17 1944 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and "Professor in Practice of...

Filarete

male
Italian Renaissance writer, Architecturaltheoretician, Battistero di San Giovanni, Castello Sforzesco, Piero de' Medici, Antonio di Pietro Averlino
Antonio di Pietro Averlino (c. 1400 - c. 1469), also "Averulino", dubbed "Filarete" (Greek "lover of virtue"), was a Florentine architect, sculptor...
Andrea Palladio

Andrea Palladio

male, deceased (1580)
Palladian Architecture, Bartolomeo Cavazza, classic architecture, vicenza, greek goddess, roman…Architecturaltheoretician, Architectural history
Andrea Palladio, was an Italian architect, widely considered the most influential person in the history of Western architecture. He was born Andrea...
Charles Jencks

Charles Jencks

male, 70 years old
Harvard University, Kew Gardens, soliton, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Architecturaltheoretician…Architectural Historian
Charles Jencks (b. 1939) is an American architect, landscape architect and architectural theorist. His books on the history and criticism of...
Peter Eisenman

Peter Eisenman

male, 77 years old
Cornell University alumni, Jewish, bowtie, Architecturaltheoretician, The New York Five, architecture writer
Peter Eisenman (born August 11, 1932 in Newark, New Jersey) is one of the foremost practitioners of deconstructivism in American architecture....
Bruno Taut

Bruno Taut

male, deceased (1938)
German urban planner, modernist, Expressionist architect, magdeburg, German, Expressionism…Architecturaltheoretician
Bruno Julius Florian Taut, was a prolific German architect, urban planner and author active in the Weimar period. Taut is best known in the...