Rem Koolhaas

Rem Koolhaas

male, 64 years old
amo, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, architect, Architectural Association School of Architecture, rotterdam, Ole Bouman…architecture
Remment Koolhaas (born November 17 1944 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and "Professor in Practice of...
Santiago Calatrava

Santiago Calatrava

male, 58 years old (United States)
architect, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ground zero, Malmö, Montjuic Communications Tower, Milwaukee Art Museum…architecture, International Academy of Architecture
Santiago Calatrava is one of my favourite contemporary architects. It is not because he is Spanish, it is just because he is special. He is an...
William Morris

William Morris

male, deceased (1896)
Victorian poetry, Mythopoeic writer, Communalism, socialist, graphic designer, Marxist…architecture
William Morris was an English artist, writer, socialist and activist. He was one of the principal founders of the British arts and crafts movement,...
I. M. Pei

I. M. Pei

male, 92 years old
architect, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, American, ieoh ming pei, steel, concrete…architecture
Ieoh Ming Pei (b. April 26, 1917), commonly known by his initials I. M. Pei, is a Pritzker Prize-winning Chinese American architect, known as the...
El Greco

El Greco

male, deceased (1614)
Greek-Spaniard, greek alphabet, From crete, Republic of Venice, Mannerism, Toledo, Spain…architecture
El Greco was a painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. He usually signed his paintings in Greek letters with his full name,...
Tadao Ando

Tadao Ando

male, 68 years old
architect, Pritzker Architecture Prize, Kobe earthquake, Great Hanshin earthquake, Japanese, architecture
Tadao Ando is a Japanese architect whose approach to architecture was once categorised as Critical Regionalism. Ando has led a storied life,...
Alvar Aalto

Alvar Aalto

male, deceased (1976)
Modernist architect, from Southern Österbotten, Finnish furniture designer, designer, Furniture designer, architecture
Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto was a Finnish architect and designer, sometimes called the "Father of Modernism" in the Nordic countries. His work includes...
Ray Eames

Ray Eames

female, deceased (1988)
design, Furniture designer, charles and ray eames, American furniture designer, Ray-Bernice Alexandra Kaiser Eames, Bloomfield Hills…architecture
Ray-Bernice Alexandra Kaiser Eames (December 15, 1912 - August 21, 1988) (pronounced) was an American artist, designer, architect and filmmaker...
Tom Ford

Tom Ford

male, 47 years old
Santa Fe, Savannah College Of Art And Design, Parsons school of design, From Austin, Texas, Yves Saint Laurent, ready-to-wear…architecture
Tom Ford (born August 27, 1962) is an American fashion designer. He gained international fame for his legendary turnaround of the Gucci fashion...

Vitruvius

male
Golden Age Latin author, Latin writer, Campania, Fano, cognomen, Architectural theoretician…Classical antiquarian architecture writer, The Ten Books of Architecture, architecture
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.