After a successful career spanning over 60 years, Argentine Architect César Pelli has died at age 92. He was best known as the Architect of Petronas Tower in Kuala Lumpur.…
Pritzker-winning Shigeru Ban is a Japanese Architect, famous for his innovative work with paper, particularly cardboard tubes, to quickly and efficiently house disaster victims. He is one of the few…
1. Vanna Venturi House, USA | Robert Venturi Front View – Vanna Venturi House Year: 1964Type: ResidentialLocation: Philadelphia, USA 2. Fire Station 4, Columbus, USA Facade View – Fire Station…
Founded and led by Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang is an architecture and urban design practice headquartered in Chicago with offices in New York, San Francisco, and Paris. The Studio is known for its material…
At her arrival in Brazil, little did Archillina Bo, by then already known as Lina Bo Bardi knows about the impact this would have on her architectural career. Brazil is…
Rumored to be the inspiration for The Fountainhead’s Howard Roark, the headstrong individualist who burnt down a temple because it was not built according to his drawings, Frank Lloyd Wright…
Born on April 26th, 1917 in Guangzhou, China Ieoh Ming Pei, better known as I.M. Pei, celebrated his hundred birthday in 2017, is this year’s 102nd. In the US, where…
“Less is more” These words of Robert Browning from Andrew del Sarto was aphorized by Ludwig Mies van der rohe, also known as the father of minimalist architecture in the…
The first name that probably pops up in everyone’s mind when we talk of women architects is none other than Zaha Hadid. Someone always opens to experimentation, trying new ideas,…
Manuelle Gautrand, the first female and also the first French architect to receive the European Prize for architecture. She believes that ‘Innovation is always based on disobedience’. Born on July…
With a career spanning across 40 years with more than 800 buildings spread in California and Hawaii, Julia Morgan was the first female architect to receive the AIA Gold Medal.…
Nuclear attacks happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and there lived a 14-year-old kid who wondered how those lost homes would be rebuilt! His name was Arata Isozaki. Born in Otia…