- Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright, Jr. (March 30,1890, Oak Park, Illinois - May 31, 1978, Santa Monica, California), commonly known as Lloyd Wright, was an American architect who did most of his work in Southern California. He was fathered by, overshadowed by, and frequently confused with Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright came to Michigan as a landscape architect, trained by the Olmsted brothers and put to work at the San Diego World's Fair of 1915. - Frank Gehry
Born in 1930, he studied architecture at the University of Southern California and studied City Planning at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. He developed projects of private and public city planning in America, Japan. In Europe, he has recently been awarded the Pritsker Architecture Prize in 1989 and the Wolf Prize in Art in 1992. His projects have been published all over the world. - Thom Mayne
Born in 1944 in Waterbury, Connecticut, he received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California in '68. After founding Morphosis, he received his Master's degree in Architecture at Harvard in '78. Mayne has made his mark professionally, starting with the design of his first large projects such as the Kate Mantilini restaurant in Beverly Hills and 72 Market Street restaurant in Venice. - Shigeru Ban
Shigeru Ban is an accomplished Japanese and international architect, most famous for his innovative work with paper, particularly recycled cardboard paper tubes used to quickly and efficiently house disaster victims. Shigeru Ban was the winner in 2005 at age 48 of the 40th annual Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. - Christopher Alexander
Christopher Alexander (born October 4, 1936 in Vienna, Austria) is an architect noted for his theories about design, and for more than 200 building projects in California, Japan, Mexico and around the world. Reasoning that users know more about the buildings they need than any architect could, he produced and validated (in collaboration with Sarah Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein) a "pattern language" designed to empower any human being to design and build at any scale. - Julia Morgan
Julia Morgan was an American architect. She is best known for her work on Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California. Born in San Francisco, California, she was raised in Oakland and graduated from Oakland High School in 1890. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1894 with a degree in civil engineering. At the urging of her friend and mentor Bernard Maybeck, whom she met in her final year in undergraduate school, … - Peter Zumthor
Peter Zumthor is a Swiss architect. The son of a cabinet-maker, Zumthor learned carpentry at an early age. He studied at Pratt Institute in New York in the 1960’s. During lean years, Zumthor worked on many historic restoration projects, which gave him a further understanding of construction and the qualities of different rustic building materials. - Paul Williams
Paul Revere Williams (February 18, 1894 - January 23, 1980) was an African American architect who based his practice largely in Los Angeles, California and the Southern California area. Orphaned at the age of four, he was the only African American student in his elementary school. He studied at the Los Angeles School of Art and Design and at the Los Angeles branch of the New York Beaux-Arts Institute of Design Atelier, subsequently working as a landscape architect. - John Lautner
John Lautner (16 July, 1911-24 October, 1994) was an influential American architect whose work in Southern California combined progressive engineering with humane design and dramatic space-age flair. - Arthur Erickson
Arthur Charles Erickson CC (born June 14, 1924, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is an internationally celebrated Canadian architect. He studied Asian languages at the University of British Columbia, and later earned a degree in architecture from McGill University. Most of his buildings are modernist concrete structures designed to respond to the natural conditions of its location, especially climate. Many buildings, such as the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, … - Kevin Roche
Kevin Roche (b. June 14, 1922) is an award winning twentieth-century Irish architect. He is famous for his creative work with glass. Born in Dublin. Roche graduated from University College Dublin before immigrating to the US in 1948. There he studied under Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and later worked for Eero Saarinen. When Saarinen died in 1961, Roche completed 12 major unfinished Saarinen projects, including some of Saarinen's best-known work: the Gateway Arch, … - Bernard Maybeck
Bernard Ralph Maybeck (February_7, 1862 - October_3, 1957) was a prominent architect in the Arts and Crafts Movement of the early 20th Century. - Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek-American architect and computer scientist best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also known as the founder of The One Laptop per Child association (OLPC). - Eric Corey Freed
Eric Corey Freed (b. August 7, 1970, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American architect. Based in San Francisco, Freed is credited with helping to establish the Sustainable Design curricula at both Academy of Art University and University of California, Berkeley Extension Program. Freed is a practitioner in the tradition of organic architecture, first developed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The Founding Chair of Architecture for The San Francisco Design Museum, … - Eric Owen Moss
Eric Owen Moss (b. 1943 in Los Angeles, California) is a widely recognized Los Angeles based architect. Eric Owen Moss was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1965. Moss continued his education, earning his Masters of Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, … - Sasaki Associates
Sasaki Associates is an architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning firm founded in 1953 by Hideo Sasaki (1919-2000). Sasaki was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Illinois, and Harvard University. He served as chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard from 1958 to 1968. Sasaki Associates has created a wide range of buildings, landscapes, and urban infrastructure. - Hans Hollein
Hans Hollein, (born March 30, 1934 in Vienna) is an Austrian architect. Hollein achieved a diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1956, then attended the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1959 and the University of California, Berkeley in 1960. He has worked for various agencies in Sweden and in America before returning to Vienna, founding his own agency in 1964. In 1985 Hollein won the Pritzker Prize. - Pierre Koenig
Pierre Koenig (October 17, 1925 - April 4, 2004) was an American architect. Born in San Francisco, received his B.Arch. in 1952 from the University of Southern California, apprenticed under Raphael Soriano among others, and in private practice beginning in 1952, Koenig practiced mainly on the west coast and was most notable for the design of the Case Study Houses No. 21 and 22 in 1960 and other steel houses. - A. Quincy Jones
Archibald Quincy Jones, FAIA, (1913 - 1979) was a prolific Los Angeles-based architect and educator known for innovative buildings in the modernist style and for urban planning that pioneered the use of greenbelts and green design. Jones was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1913. He was raised in the city of Gardena in Southern California, but finished high school in Seattle. - Albert Frey
Albert Frey (b. October_18 1903, Zurich - d. November 14 1998, Palm Springs, California) was a prolific architect who established a style of modern architecture centered around Palm Springs, California that came to be known as 'desert modernism.' Born in Zurich, Switzerland, Frey received his architecture diploma in 1924 from the Institute of Technology in Winterthur, Switzerland. - Mary Colter
Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter (April 4 1869 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - January 8 1958) was an American architect. As a child Mary Colter traveled with her family through frontier Minnesota, Colorado and Texas in the years after the American Civil War. After her father died in 1886 Colter attended the California School of Design in San Francisco. In 1901, the Fred Harvey Company (of the famous Harvey Houses) offered her the job of decorating the Alvarado Hotel in Albuquerque. - Peter Calthorpe
Peter Calthorpe has been named one of twenty five "innovators on the cutting edge" by "Newsweek" magazine for his work redefining the models of urban and suburban growth in America. Starting practice in 1972, he has had a long and honored career in urban planning and architecture, combining his experience in both disciplines to develop an environmental approach to community development and urban design. - Jon Jerde
Jon Jerde is an American architect based in Venice Beach, California, principal of the Jerde Partnership and known for innovative mall design and "experience architecture." He is a graduate of the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California. After 13 years in the mall business working for others, Jerde's first big break was the 1977 design for the Horton Plaza Center, across from Horton Plaza Park in downtown San Diego, … - John Galen Howard
John Galen Howard (b. May 8 1864, Chelmsford, Massachusetts - d. July 18 1931, San Francisco, California) was an American architect. He is best known for his work as the supervising architect of the Master Plan for the University of California, Berkeley campus, and for founding the University of California's architecture program. Among his most famous buildings are the Hearst Memorial Mining Building and the Hearst Greek Theatre, both located at UC Berkeley. - Herbert Bayer
Herbert Bayer was an Austrian graphic designer, painter, photographer, and architect. Bayer apprenticed under the artist Georg Schmidthammer in Linz. Leaving the workshop to study at the Darmstadt Artists' Colony, he became interested in Walter Gropius's Bauhaus manifesto. After Bayer had studied for four years at the Bauhaus under such teachers as Wassily Kandinsky and László Moholy-Nagy, Gropius appointed Bayer director of printing and advertising. - William Pereira
William Leonard Pereira (April 25, 1909 - November 13, 1985) was an American architect from Chicago Illinois, of Portuguese ancestry who was noted for his futuristic designs of landmark buildings such as the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco. Remarkably prolific, he worked out of Los Angeles, and was known for his love of science fiction and expensive cars, but mostly for his unmistakable style of architecture, which came to define the look of mid-20th century America. - Eugene Tsui
Eugene Tsui is an architect based in Emeryville, California. He apprenticed under maverick architect Bruce Goff, and received a master's degree and doctorate from University of California, Berkeley. He is known for his highly unconventional style of nature-influenced architecture. His currently built designs include the Watsu School at Harbin Hot Springs, several residential homes in the United States, and his firm's company headquarters in Emeryville. - Howard Davis
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 studied physics at Cooper Union and at Northwestern University and received a master's degree in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked with Christopher Alexander. He has worked on projects in the Pacific Northwest, India, England, Mexico and Israel. - Wallace Neff
Wallace Neff (1895 - 1982), was an architect based in Southern California and was largely responsible for developing the region's distinct architectural style. Neff primarily drew from the architectural tradition of both Spain and the Mediterranean as a whole, gaining extensive recognition from the number of celebrity commissions, notably Pickfair, the mansion belonging originally to Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. - Bing Thom
Bing Wing Thom , architect (b at Hong Kong 8 Dec 1940). Thom and his family immigrated to Canada in 1950. He studied architecture at the University of British Columbia (1966) and the University of California, Berkeley (1969) before moving to Tokyo in 1971 to work for Japanese architect-urbanist Fumihiko Maki. A year later, Thom returned to Canada and became personnel and project director for Arthur ERICKSON Architects. - William Wurster
William Wilson Wurster (1895 - 1973) was an influential American architect and architectural teacher at the University of California, Berkeley and at MIT. Wurster was born in Stockton, California and is strongly associated with the Bay Area and its regional style, along with Wurster's mentor Bernard Maybeck, the landscape architect Thomas Church, and fellow architect Joseph Esherick. - Beatrix Farrand
Beatrix Jones Farrand (1872-1959) was a US landscape architect. Clients such as Harkness and Rockefeller commissioned her to design the gardens at their estates and country homes. One of the founding eleven members of the American Society of Landscape Architects, she had an important influence on the profession in the U.S. Her use of garden "rooms" or defined areas, which transition sharply from one to the next has become a hallmark of modern landscape architecture. - Arthur Brown Jr
Arthur Brown, Jr. was an American architect, based in San Francisco. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1896, where he and his future partner, John Bakewell, Jr, were protégés of famed Bay Area architect Bernard Maybeck. Brown went to Paris and graduated from the "Ecole des Beaux Arts" in 1901, before returning to San Francisco to establish his practice with Bakewell. - Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (aka Tod Williams Billie Tsien and Associates) are a wife-and-husband architects firm (founded 1974) based in New York, USA, the practice. Tod Williams (born 1943, New York) studied architecture at Princeton University, New Jersey. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, Italy. Previous to founding the office Williams worked for six years for architect Richard Meier. - Joseph Esherick
Joseph Esherick (1914 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - December 17, 1998) was an American architect, nephew of American sculptor Wharton Esherick. Graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1937, Esherick set up practice in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1953 and taught at University of California, Berkeley for many years. He was awarded the AIA Gold Medal in 1989. Inheriting the Bay Area architectural tradition of figures like Bernard Maybeck and William Wurster, … - John Entenza
John Entenza (1903-1984) was one of the pivotal figures in the growth of modernism in California. During his editorship, the magazine ARTS & ARCHITECTURE championed all that was new in the arts, with special emphasis on emerging modernist architecture in Southern California. Entenza's most lasting contribution was his sponsorship of the Case Study Houses project, which featured the works of architects such as Raphael Soriano, Charles Eames, Craig Ellwood, Pierre Koenig, … - Alfred Caldwell
Alfred Caldwell (1903-1998) was an American architect best known for his landscape architecture in and around Chicago, Illinois. - Wayne McAllister
Wayne McAllister (1907-2000) was a Los Angeles-based architect who was a leader in the Googie style of architecture that embraced the automobile. Inspired by tail fins and gleaming chrome, he elevated the drive-in restaurant and the theme hotel to futuristic works of art. His 1941 El Rancho Vegas was the very first resort hotel on the Las Vegas Strip and his iconic 1949 Bob's Big Boy restaurant in Burbank, California is a state of California historical landmark. - G. Albert Lansburgh
Gustave Albert Lansburgh Born in Panama, G. Albert Lansburgh was raised largely in San Francisco, California. After graduating from that city's Boys High School in 1894, Lansburgh enrolled in the University of California, Berkeley. While a student there, he worked part time in the offices of prominent San Francisco architect Bernard Maybeck. Upon graduation from Berkeley, he moved to Paris, France where, in 1901, he was enrolled in the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts, … - Garrett Eckbo
Garrett Eckbo was an American landscape architect notable for his seminal 1950 book "Landscape for Living". He was born in Cooperstown, New York to Axel Eckbo, a businessman, and Theodora Munn Eckbo. In 1912, the family moved to Chicago, Illinois. After Eckbo’s parents divorced, he and his mother relocated to Alameda, California where they struggled financially while he grew up. After Eckbo graduated from high school in 1929, …
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