The Architecture community has seen multiple groundbreaking projects in the last year where our favorite Starchitecture/Architecture firms have been busy innovating, designing and working on public commissions. From Zaha Hadid…
Jean Nouvel (born 1945, Fumel) is a French architect and 2008 Pritzker Prize laureate famous for buildings that stage light itself — from the mechanical-iris facade of the Institut du…
Office of Metropolitan Architecture aka OMA is an architectural cult with the Dutchman, Rem Koolhaas being its leader! You must be living under a rock if you haven’t heard of…
Raj Rewal (born 1934) built post-independence India’s architectural identity in concrete and sandstone: the space-frame Hall of Nations (1972, controversially demolished in 2017), the dense courtyard urbanism of the Asian…
Louis Sullivan (1856–1924), the American architect remembered as the “father of skyscrapers” and author of the dictum “form follows function,” gave the tall steel-frame building its first true architectural language…
Hassan Fathy (1900–1989), Egypt’s “architect of the poor,” proved that mud brick could be modern: his New Gourna Village near Luxor (1946–52) revived Nubian vaulting and passive cooling decades before…
Hans Hollein (1934–2014), Austria’s 1985 Pritzker Prize laureate, declared “everything is architecture” and proved it at every scale — from the tiny aluminium-fronted Retti candle shop in Vienna (1965) to…
Studio Mumbai was founded in 1995 by Bijoy Jain, and it has a unique appearance on the architectural scene, not only in India but worldwide. The studio is comprised of…
Ben van Berkel (born 1957 in Utrecht) co-founded UNStudio in Amsterdam in 1988 and turned the diagram into a design engine: the double-helix Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Rotterdam’s Erasmus Bridge…
Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926) was the Catalan master of Modernisme whose organic, structurally daring architecture turned Barcelona into a pilgrimage city: the Sagrada Família (under construction since 1882), Casa Batlló, Casa…
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,…
Frei Otto (1925–2015) was the German architect-engineer who taught buildings to weigh almost nothing: soap-film experiments became the cable-net German Pavilion at Expo 67 and the sweeping acrylic roof of…