Paul Oliver

Paul Oliver

male, 82 years old
English, British, Music writer, architecture writer, World Atlas of Vernacular Architecture, Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development…vernaculararchitecture
Paul Oliver (born 25 May 1927 in Nottingham, England) is a researcher at the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development. He has argued that...

Howard Davis

male
The Cooper Union alumni, Northwestern University alumni, University of California, Los Angeles alumni, The Culture of Building, The Production of Houses, University of California, Berkeley…vernaculararchitecture, architecture
Howard Davis is an American architect, writer and professor of architecture at the University of Oregon in Eugene. A native of New York City, he...
Henry Glassie

Henry Glassie

male (Bloomington, Indiana, United States)
University of Pennsylvania, folklife, The Star of Ballymenone, President´s Council for the Humanities, State University of New York at Oneonta, vernaculararchitecture
Henry Glassie (24 March 1941-) is a world-renowned folklorist and current College Professor of Folklore at Indiana University Bloomington. With...
Samuel Mockbee

Samuel Mockbee

male, deceased (2001) (Bonita, United States)
graham foundation, vernaculararchitecture, MacArthur Fellow, gold medal, american institute of architect, leukemia…modern architecture
Samuel "Sambo" Mockbee was an American architect and a co-founder of the Auburn University Rural Studio program in Hale County, Alabama. He was...
Baldasare Forestiere

Baldasare Forestiere

male, deceased (1946)
the new yorker, vernaculararchitecture, From Fresno, California, Italian-American, California Central Valley, Watts Towers
Baldasare Forestiere created the Forestiere Underground Gardens in Fresno, California, a spectacular ten-acre subterranean villa built solely by...
Daves Rossell

Daves Rossell

male (Savannah, Georgia, United States)
professor, architecture, Ph.D., vernaculararchitecture, society of architectural historian, Savannah College Of Art And Design…Vernacular Georgia Association
E.G. Daves Rossell, Ph.D. is an architectural historian and Professor of Architectural History at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)....

Miles Lewis

male
historian, Australian Academy of the Humanities, Town and Country Planning Association, World Heritage, Architectural conservation, SAHANZ…architecture writer, vernaculararchitecture
Professor Miles Lewis AM (b. 1943, Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian academic serving as a Professor in the Faculty of Architecture, Building...
Beverly Buchanan

Beverly Buchanan

female, 69 years old
African-American, from North Carolina, Bennett College, Art Students League, From Ann Arbor, From Georgia…vernaculararchitecture
Beverly Buchanan (b. October 8 1940, Fuquay, North Carolina) is an African American artist. Buchanan is noted for her exploration of Southern...

Luis Barragán

male, deceased (1988)
pritzker prize, alhambra, vernaculararchitecture, Naucalpan, Estado de México, architect, Mexican
Luis Barragán is considered the most important Mexican architect of the 20th century. Educated as an engineer, he graduated from the "Escuela L...
Hakon Ahlberg

Hakon Ahlberg

male, deceased (1984)
fine art, architect, swedish, trade union, vernaculararchitecture, department store…Architecture of Sweden, Swedish architecture
Hakon Ahlberg was a Swedish architect, editor and author, best known as the official architect for the repair and restoration of Gripsholm Castle...