Who was Kenzo Tange? Kenzo Tange (4 September 1913 – 22 March 2005) was Japan’s most influential modern architect and the country’s first Pritzker Prize laureate (1987). From the Hiroshima…
Jørn Utzon (1918–2008), the Danish architect behind the Sydney Opera House, won the 2003 Pritzker Prize for a career far richer than one building: the luminous Bagsværd Church, courtyard housing…
Alvaro Siza Vieira is a Portuguese architect and architectural educator. His works can’t be comprise in few words but I have tried to let you know about his 15 works. 1.…
HOK (Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum), founded in St. Louis in 1955, is one of the world’s largest architecture and engineering firms — roughly 1,800 people across 20+ offices — and…
David Chipperfield (born 1953 in London), the 2023 Pritzker Prize laureate, is contemporary architecture’s quiet master of restraint — nowhere clearer than in Berlin’s Neues Museum, where he stitched a…
Daniel Libeskind (born 1946 in Łódź, Poland) is deconstructivism’s great storyteller: an architect who did not complete a building until he was 52, then reshaped how architecture carries memory —…
Toyo Ito (born 1941), the 2013 Pritzker Prize laureate, is Japan’s great architect of lightness — his Sendai Mediatheque (2001) replaced columns with swaying tubes of steel lattice and changed…
Hafeez Contractor (born 1950, Mumbai) is India’s most prolific architect, a Padma Bhushan awardee (2016) whose firm has shaped the skylines of Mumbai, Kolkata, and Gurgaon with more than 100…
Pritzker Prize laureate, Renzo Piano an Italian Architect who is known for his delicate and refined approach to building, deployed in museums and other buildings around the world. His interest…
Walter Gropius (1883–1969) was a German-American architect and the founder of the Bauhaus — the school that fused art, craft, and industry and set the course of twentieth-century design. From…
Thom Mayne (born 1944), founder of the Los Angeles studio Morphosis and 2005 Pritzker Prize laureate, builds architecture that looks beamed in from the future — the perforated-steel 41 Cooper…
SHoP Architects is known for its designs of the Barclays Center arena in Brooklyn, New York, its contract with the Howard Hughes Corporation to develop the South Street Seaport, and the…