ARCHITECTURE: Peter Zumthor
Peter Zumthor (26/4/1943- ) is an architect admired by his colleagues around the world for work that is focused, uncompromising and exceptionally …
DESIGN: Swiss Design Collection, Part II
The Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, home to Switzerland’s largest international design collection, is celebrating its 150th anniversary with the opening of the …
ARCHITECTURE: James Stirling
James Stirling (22/4/1926-25/6/1992), is considered as a leader of the great transition from the Modern Movement to the architecture of the New, …
ARCHITECTURE: Herzog & de Meuron
Herzog & de Meuron represents something uniquely, distinctly Swiss. The works of the Basel-based practice express conceptual precision, formal clarity and immaculate …
ARCHITECTURE: Hans Hollein-Works from the 1960’s
Described by Richard Meier as an architect whose “groundbreaking ideas” have “had a major impact on the thinking of designers and architects,” …
ARCHITECTURE:Hans Hollein
Described by Richard Meier as an architect whose “groundbreaking ideas” have “had a major impact on the thinking of designers and architects,” …
ARCHITECTURE:Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (27/3/1886-17/8/1969) is one of the most influential architects of the 20th Century, known for his role in …
ARCHITECTURE: Luis Ramiro Barragán Morfín
The Mexican architect and engineer Luis Ramiro Barragán Morfín (9/3/1902-22/11/1988), is regarded as one of the most important architects of the 20th …
ARCHITECTURE: Kengo Kuma-Onomatopoeia
Kengo Kuma is one of the most significant contemporary Japanese architects and professors at the Graduate School of Architecture at the University …
ARCHITECTURE: Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry (28/2/1929- ) is a Canadian architect, currently a United States resident based in Los Angeles. A number of his buildings, …
ARCHITECTURE: Louis Kahn
Regarded as one of the great master builders of the 20th Century, Louis Kahn (20/2/1901-17/3/1974) was one of America’s most influential modernist …
ARCHITECTURE: Crossed Histories
Born in the 1920s, critic Ada Louise Huxtable and architects Gae Aulenti and Phyllis Lambert were among the most influential figures in …
ARCHITECTURE: Alvar Aalto
The Finnish Architect, City Planner and Furniture Designer Alvar Aalto, in full Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (3/2/1898-11/5/1976), was one of Finland’s greatest …
ARCHITECTURE: Oscar Niemeyer
The Brazilian architect Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho, known as Oscar Niemeyer (15/12/1907-5/12/2012), was universally regarded as the very last …
ARCHITECTURE: Lina Bo Bardi
Lina Bo Bardi (5/12/1914-20/3/1992) was an Italian-born Brazilian architect, furniture designer, set designer, and journalist whose work combines a Modernist sensitivity with …
ARCHITECTURE: Lene Tranberg
The Danish Architect Lene Tranberg was born in Copenhagen on 29/11/1956. In 1977, she was admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of …
ARCHITECTURE: Terunobu Fujimori
Terunobu Fujimori (21/11/1946- ) is a Japanese architect and leading historian of modern Japanese architecture acknowledged for his shift from traditional techniques. …
ARCHITECTURE:Rem Koolhaas
“The reason that I am interested about Architecture is the possibility that offers to work in different places, projects and scales. …
ARCHITECTURE: Wang Shu
“Architecture as mountains” is how the Chinese architect, Wang Shu (4/11/1963- ) describes his design for the Ningbo Historic Museum. His buildings …
ARCHITECTURE: Zaha Hadid
The Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid, born in Bagdad (31/10/1950-31/3/2016) is a representative of the school of deconstruction. She read mathematics at the …
ARCHITECTURE: Kazuyo Sejima
Kazuyo Sejima (29/10/56- ) was born in Japan and after studying at Japan Women’s University and working at the office of Toyo …