Eero Saarinen (1910–1961), the Finnish-American master of the swooping curve, gave postwar America its most optimistic silhouettes: the winged TWA Flight Center, the soaring Gateway Arch, and Dulles Airport’s hovering…
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…
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 (1928–2024), the 1993 Pritzker Prize laureate and a founder of Japan’s Metabolist movement, spent seven decades quietly fusing Eastern restraint with Western modernism — from the Tokyo Metropolitan…
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.…
The sky was suffused with all hues of red declaring the sun. The boy had already seen many castles. Capturing the built and the beauty around in his sketchbook, he…
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…