Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier

male, deceased (1965)
Modernist architect, Swiss urban planner, architect, From Chandigarh, modern architecture, writer…architecturewriter
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...
Herbert Muschamp

Herbert Muschamp

male
New York Times, architecture, judge, American, architecturewriter
Herbert Muschamp is a writer for the New York Times who, in 2004, stepped down as the newspaper's architecture critic. During his controversial...
Paul Goldberger

Paul Goldberger

male, 59 years old
New York Times, tenured, Yale University, new yorker, The Times, Parsons The New School for Design…architecturewriter
Paul Goldberger (born in 1950 in Passaic, New Jersey) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic. He is well known for his "Sky...
Ada Louise Huxtable

Ada Louise Huxtable

female, 88 years old
Ada Louise (Landman) Huxtable, graham foundation, Wall Street Journal, Ada Louise Rene' (Landman) Huxtable, Progressive Architecture and Art in America, architecturewriter
Ada Louise (Landman) Huxtable (b. March 14 1921, in New York, N.Y) is an architecture critic and writer on architecture. In 1970, she was awarded a...
Nicolai Ouroussoff

Nicolai Ouroussoff

male
New York Times, journalist, The New York Times, American, Los Angeles Times, architecturewriter
Nicolai Ouroussoff is the architecture critic for "The New York Times", where he replaced Herbert Muschamp in 2004. Previously, he had been the...
Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs

female, deceased (2006)
Jewish person, immigrant to Canada, death by stroke, From toronto, tax resister, Officer of the Order of Canada…Non-fiction writer, Ontario writer, writer, architecturewriter
Jane Jacobs, OC, O.Ont (May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was an American-born Canadian urbanist, writer and activist. She is best known for "The De...
Peter Eisenman

Peter Eisenman

male, 77 years old
Cornell University alumni, Jewish, bowtie, Architectural theoretician, The New York Five, architecturewriter…architecture
Peter Eisenman (born August 11, 1932 in Newark, New Jersey) is one of the foremost practitioners of deconstructivism in American architecture....
Buckminster Fuller

Buckminster Fuller

male, deceased (1983)
buckyballs, Solar building designer, Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller, fullerene, architecturewriter, human…American technology writer
Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller was an American visionary, designer, architect, poet, author, and inventor. Throughout his life, Fuller was conc...
Robert Venturi

Robert Venturi

male, 84 years old
Towards a New Architecture, graham foundation, Vers une Architecture, Functional, functionalism, modernist…architecturewriter, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Robert Charles Venturi (June 25, 1925 -) is an award winning American architect. Based in Philadelphia, he worked under Eero Saarinen and Louis...
Vincent Scully

Vincent Scully

male, 83 years old
Yale University, Louis I. Kahn, Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, National Medal of Arts, architecturewriter, National Building Museum…architecture
Vincent Joseph Scully, Jr. (b.1920) is a Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art in Architecture at Yale University, and the author of...