Marcel Breuer

Marcel Breuer

male, deceased (1981) (Wayland, Massachusetts, United States)
Marcel Lajos Breuer, architect and furniture designer, was an influential Hungarian-born modernist of Jewish descent. One of the fathers of...
Robert Venturi

Robert Venturi

male, 84 years old
Robert Charles Venturi (June 25, 1925 -) is an award winning American architect. Based in Philadelphia, he worked under Eero Saarinen and Louis...
Stuart Davis

Stuart Davis

male, deceased (1964)
Stuart Davis (December 7, 1892 - June 24, 1964), American painter, was born in Philadelphia to Edward Wyatt Davies and Helen Stuart Davies. His...
Richard Neutra

Richard Neutra

male, deceased (1970)
Richard Joseph Neutra (April 8, 1892 - April 16, 1970) is considered one of modernism's most important architects. Neutra was born in Vienna,...
Louis Sullivan

Louis Sullivan

male, deceased (1924)
Louis Henri Sullivan (September 3, 1856 - April 14, 1924) was an American architect, called the "father of modernism". He is considered by many as...
Pierre Boulez

Pierre Boulez

male, 84 years old
Pierre Boulez (b. March 26 1925) is a French composer and conductor of contemporary classical music.
Philip Guston

Philip Guston

male, deceased (1980)
Philip Guston (July 27, 1913 - June 7, 1980) was a notable painter and printmaker in the New York School, which included many of the Abstract...
Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong

female, 65 years old
Karen Armstrong (b. November 14 1944 in Wildmoor, Worcestershire, England) is an author who writes on Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Buddhism....
Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland

male, deceased (1990)
Aaron Copland was an American composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American...
Charles Jencks

Charles Jencks

male, 70 years old
Charles Jencks (b. 1939) is an American architect, landscape architect and architectural theorist. His books on the history and criticism of...