- Rem Koolhaas
Remment Koolhaas (born November 17 1944 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and "Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design" at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, USA. Koolhaas first studied scriptwriting at the Dutch Film Academy, and was then a journalist for the "Haagse Post" before starting studies, in 1968, in architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, followed, … - Santiago Calatrava
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 architect and an engineer, what indeed influences his way of designing bridges, public spaces, and buildings. I got trapped into Calatrava's work after seeing a documentary in Spanish TV station "La2" many many years ago (I was a kid and he was beginning to be popular). - William Morris
William Morris was an English artist, writer, socialist and activist. He was one of the principal founders of the British arts and crafts movement, best known as a designer of wallpaper and patterned fabrics, a writer of poetry and fiction and a pioneer of the socialist movement in Britain. His family was wealthy, and he went to school at Marlborough College, but left in 1851 after a student rebellion there. - I. M. Pei
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 last master of high modernist architecture. He works with the abstract form, using stone, concrete, glass, and steel. Pei is one of the most successful architects of the 20th century. - El Greco
El Greco was a painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. He usually signed his paintings in Greek letters with his full name, Doménicos Theotokópoulos, underscoring his Greek descent. El Greco was born in Crete, which was at that time part of the Republic of Venice; at 26 he traveled to Venice itself to study, then a common practice of young Greek men who wished to pursue a wider education. - Tadao Ando
Tadao Ando is a Japanese architect whose approach to architecture was once categorised as Critical Regionalism. Ando has led a storied life, working as a truck driver and boxer prior to settling on the profession of architecture, despite never having taken formal training in the field. He works primarily in exposed cast-in-place concrete and is renowned for an exemplary craftsmanship which invokes a Japanese sense of materiality, … - Alvar Aalto
Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto was a Finnish architect and designer, sometimes called the "Father of Modernism" in the Nordic countries. His work includes architecture, furniture and glassware. - Ray Eames
Ray-Bernice Alexandra Kaiser Eames (December 15, 1912 - August 21, 1988) (pronounced) was an American artist, designer, architect and filmmaker who, together with her husband Charles, is responsible for many classic, iconic designs of the 20th century. She was born in Sacramento, California. Having lived in a number of cities during her youth, in 1933 she moved to New York, where she studied abstract painting with Hans Hofmann. - Tom Ford
Tom Ford (born August 27, 1962) is an American fashion designer. He gained international fame for his legendary turnaround of the Gucci fashion house and the creation of the Tom Ford label, becoming one of the world's most influential designers. - Vitruvius
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. - Charles Eames
Charles Eames (pronounced) was an American designer, architect and filmmaker who, together with his wife Ray, is responsible for many classic, iconic designs of the 20th century. - Peter Eisenman
Peter Eisenman (born August 11, 1932 in Newark, New Jersey) is one of the foremost practitioners of deconstructivism in American architecture. Eisenman's fragmented forms are identified with an eclectic group of architects that have been, at times unwillingly, labelled deconstructivists. Although Eisenman shuns the label, he has had a history of controversy aimed at keeping him in the public (academic) eye. - Herbert Muschamp
Herbert Muschamp is a writer for the New York Times who, in 2004, stepped down as the newspaper's architecture critic. During his controversial tenure, he rose to preeminence as the nation's foremost judge of the architecture world. He continues to write for the newspaper's other sections. - George Nelson
George Nelson (1908-1986) was, together with Charles & Ray Eames, one of the founding fathers of American modernism. George Nelson was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1908. He died in New York City in 1986. George Nelson studied Architecture at Yale University, where he graduated in 1928. He also received a bachelor degree in fine arts in 1931. A year later while preparing for the Paris Prize competition he won the Rome prize. - M. C. Escher
Maurits Cornelis Escher (June 17 1898 - March 27 1972), usually referred to as M. C. Escher, was a Dutch graphic artist known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs and mezzotints which feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessellations. - Louis Kahn
Louis Isadore Kahn (February 20, 1901 or 1902 - March 17, 1974) was a world-renowned architect based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He later also served as a professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and at Yale University. - Peter Cook
Sir Peter Cook (born in 1936 in Southend, Essex) is a notable English architect, teacher and writer about architecture. From 1953 to 1958, he studied architecture at Bournemouth College of Art, and then moved to the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, graduating in 1960. He later returned to the AA as a teacher. While working in the office of James Cubitt & Partners, … - Antoni Gaudí
Antoni Gaudí i Cornet – sometimes referred to by the Spanish translation of his name, Antonio Gaudí – was an architect from Catalonia, Spain who belonged to the Modernisme (Art Nouveau) movement and was famous for his unique style and highly individualistic designs. - Richard Morris Hunt
Richard Morris Hunt (October 31 1827, Brattleboro, Vermont - 1895, Newport Rhode Island) preeminent figure in the history of American architecture. Hunt was the son of Jane Maria Leavitt, born to an influential family of Suffield, Connecticut, and Hon. Jonathan Hunt, a U.S. congressman whose own father was the lieutenant governor of Vermont, and scion of a wealthy and prominent Vermont family. Richard Morris Hunt was the brother of the Boston painter William Morris Hunt, … - Victor Horta
Victor Horta was a Belgian architect and designer. John Julius Norwich described him as "undoubtedly the key European Art Nouveau architect." Indeed, Horta is one of the most important names in Art Nouveau architecture; the construction of his Hôtel Tassel in Brussels in 1892-3 means that he is sometimes credited as the first to introduce the style to architecture from the decorative arts. - Maya Lin
Maya Ying Lin (born October 5, 1959) is an American artist who has become known for her work in architecture. However, she is not a legally registered architect. She is the niece of Lin Huiyin. Her best known work is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. - Will Alsop
Will (William) Alsop (born 12 December 1947) is a British architect based in London. He is responsible for several distinctive and controversial modernist buildings, most in the United Kingdom. Alsop's buildings are usually distinguished by their vibrant use of bright colour and unusual forms. While Alsop has won praise from some critics and fans of "avant-garde" architecture, he has also faced criticism from fellow architects and some segments of the general public. - Witold Rybczynski
Witold Rybczynski (born in 1943, in Edinburgh, Scotland), is a Canadian architect, professor and writer. Rybczynski was born in Edinburgh of Polish parentage and raised in Surrey, England before moving at a young age to Canada. He received Bachelor of Architecture (1960) and Master of Architecture (1972) degrees from McGill University in Montreal. Rybczynski has written more than 200 articles and papers on the subject of housing, architecture, and technology, … - Albert Speer
Albert Speer (born July 29, 1934 in Berlin) is a German architect and urban planner. He is son of the architect and Nazi Party official Albert Speer. His grandfather Albert Friedrich Speer and his great-grandfather were also architects. He won his first international prize in 1964, and opened his own architect's office. He had great international success, and worked much in Saudi Arabia. In 1977 he became professor of urban planning in Kaiserslautern. - Robert Taylor
Sir Robert Taylor was a notable English architect of the mid-late 18th century. Born at Woodford, Essex, Taylor followed in his father’s footsteps and started working as a stone-mason and sculptor. Despite some important commissions (including a bust of London merchant Christopher Emmott today held in the church of St Bartholomew, Colne, Lancashire), he enjoyed little success and turned instead to architecture, where, through hard work and not little talent, … - Pierre Cardin
Pierre Cardin is a fashion designer. He was born on July 7, 1922, near Venice, Italy, to French parents. He moved to Paris in 1945. There he studied architecture and worked with Paquin after the war. Work with Schiaparelli followed until he became head of Christian Dior's tailleure atelier in 1947, but was denied work at Balenciaga. He founded his own house in 1950 and began with haute couture in 1953. Cardin was known for his avant-garde style and his space age designs. - John Russell Pope
John Russell Pope was an architect most known for his designs of the Jefferson Memorial (completed in 1943) and the West Building of the National Gallery of Art (completed in 1941) in Washington, DC. Pope was born in New York in 1874, the son of a successful portrait painter. He studied architecture at Columbia University and graduated in 1894. He received a scholarship to attend the newly-founded American Academy in Rome, … - Kenzo Tange
Kenzo Tange was a Japanese architect, and winner of the 1987 Pritzker Prize for architecture. He was one of the most significant architects of the 20th century, combining traditional Japanese styles with modernism, and designed major buildings on five continents. In 1913 Tange was born in Sakai, Osaka. In 1935 Tange entered the Architecture Department of the University of Tokyo, and became an assistant professor there in 1946. - Eliel Saarinen
Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen (August 20, 1873, Rantasalmi, Finland - July 1, 1950, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, United States) was a Finnish architect who became famous for his art nouveau buildings in the early years of the 20th century. Saarinen was educated in Helsinki at the Helsinki University of Technology. From 1896 to 1905 he worked as a partner with Herman Gesellius and Armas Lindgren at the firm Gesellius, Lindgren, and Saarinen. - Jonathan Glancey
Jonathan Glancey is an architectural critic and writer. As of 2004, he is the architecture and design editor at The Guardian, a position he has held since 1997. He previously held the same post at The Independent. He has also been involved with the architecture magazines Architectural Review, The Architect and Blueprint. He is an honorary fellow of RIBA. - Helmut Jahn
Helmut Jahn (b. January 4, 1940) is a German-American architect, designer of dozens of major buildings throughout the world. Some of the better known among his creations are the US$800 Million Sony Center on the Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, the Messeturm in Frankfurt and the One Liberty Place, the tallest building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Jahn was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1940. - Nikolaus Pevsner
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner, CBE, (January 30, 1902 - August 18, 1983) was a German-born British historian of art and, especially, architecture. He is best known for his 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, "The Buildings of England" (1951-74), one of the great achievements of 20th-century art scholarship. - Vincent Scully
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 several books on the subject. Architect Philip Johnson once described Scully as the “the most influential architectural teacher ever.” Born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut, Scully attended Hillhouse High School. At the age of 16, he entered Yale University. He earned his BA degree from Yale in 1940, and his Ph.D in 1949. - Berenice Abbott
Berenice Abbott, born Bernice Abbott, was an American photographer best known for her black-and-white photography of New York City architecture and urban design of the 1930s. - Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (born in 1967 in Mexico City) is a Mexican-Canadian electronic artist who works with ideas from architecture, technological theater and performance. He created what may be the world's largest interactive installation, Vectorial Elevation; a work that was installed in Mexico City in 1999, in Vitoria-Gasteiz in 2002, in Lyon in 2003 and in Dublin in April-May 2004. He received several prizes, including an Ars Electronica Golden Nica in 2000. - Chris Burden
Chris Burden (born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1946) is an American artist. He studied visual arts, physics and architecture at Pomona College and the University of California, Irvine from 1969 to 1971. In 1978 he became a Professor at University of California, Los Angeles, … - Ted
Bruce Slesinger, better known by his stage name Ted, was the first drummer for the Dead Kennedys, from July 1978 to February 1981. He played the drums on their first album, "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables". He also co-wrote their first international hit single "Holiday in Cambodia" in conjunction with the rest of the group, and "Pull My Strings", a song especially written for the 1980 Bay Area Music Awards, … - 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. - Jools Holland
Jools Holland (born Julian Miles Holland in London on 24 January 1958), OBE, DL, is an English virtuoso pianist, bandleader and television presenter. - Sarah Susanka
Sarah Susanka (b. circa 1957) is an England-born American architect and author. Susanka is a proponent of the "Not So Big" philosophy of residential architecture, which aims to "build better, not bigger". She expands that philosophy into how we live our lives, focusing on "quality, not quantity". She is a breast cancer survivor. Prior to her highly successful writing career Sarah was a founding partner of the residential architecture firm of Mulfinger, Susanka, Mahady.
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