Hafeez Contractor, an architect, born in India to a Parsi family, received a scholarship to have graduated with his masters from Columbia University. After his apprenticeship with his uncle Khareghat,…
2015 Pritzker winner and a pioneer in innovative lightweight structures, Frei Otto has done 60 years of relevant and useful research in materials, membranes and tensile architecture. Born in Germany,…
Eero Saarinen, a Finnish-American architect, was considered one of the masters of 20th-century architecture. His neo-futuristic style was a topic of controversy since it showed no particular style by the…
Jorn Oberg Utzon, a Danish architect, is renowned for designing the Sydney Opera House in Australia, which was declared a World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007, making Utzon the…
Christian de Portzamparc is a French architect and urbanist. Portzamparc’s modern and elegant designs reflect his sensitivity to and understanding of the greater urban environment. He was the first French…
Fumihiko Maki is a Japanese architect who was born in Tokyo in 1928. Maki taught urban design and architecture at Harvard and Washington University while he was living in the…
Danish Architect and Urban Designer Jan Gehl are well-known for his book Cities for People in which he emphasizes the importance of pedestrian and cyclist movement inside the cities. Gehl…
William Morris was a polymath with interests across various creative genres such as Poetry, Literature, Textile design, Interior design, Architecture, and others, that are a trail of his efforts to…
Louis Sullivan was an influential American architect. He was known as Chicago’s “Father of the skyscrapers” and “Father of modernism”. His attention to detail and use of ornamentation on emerging…
Corbusier. Modernism. Pritzker, these fortunate strokes of victories speak for the years of practice and learning that are the part and parcel of the empathetic Indian Architect’s life, B.V. Doshi.…
Glenn Murcutt is the first and the only Australian architect to win Pritzker Prize, and a quite a unique recipient one, not only among the winners of the prestigious prize…
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.…