Richard Meier received his architectural training at Cornell University and established his own office in New York in 1963. His practice has included major civic commissions in the United States,…
Stefano Boeri (born 1956 in Milan) planted a new building type: the Bosco Verticale (2014), a pair of Milan towers carrying some 800 trees and 20,000 plants, now copied from…
Moshe Safdie is an Israeli-Canadian architect best known for designing Habitat ’67 at the site of Expo 67, a year-long international exhibition in Montreal. Early works by Moshe Safdie include Habitat…
Like many of his generation, Arata Isozaki was strongly shaped by the destruction of Japanese cities during World War II. He studied architecture at the University of Tokyo, graduating in…
Zaha Hadid (1950–2016) was an Iraqi-British architect and the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize (2004), celebrated for sweeping curves, fragmented geometry, and buildings that seem to defy…
Philip Johnson (1906–2005) was American architecture’s great shape-shifter — founding MoMA’s architecture department, building the modernist Glass House in 1949, co-designing the Seagram Building with Mies van der Rohe, then…
Snøhetta is an international architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, and brand design office based in Oslo, Norway, and New York City with studios in San Francisco, California, Innsbruck, Austria, Singapore,…
Ricardo Bofill (1939–2022), founder of Barcelona’s Taller de Arquitectura, built some of the most photographed architecture on earth — the rose-pink labyrinth of La Muralla Roja, the vertical village of…
Swiss architect Peter Zumthor (born 1943 in Basel) builds slowly, rarely, and almost entirely in the Alps — yet works like the Therme Vals spa, Kunsthaus Bregenz and the Kolumba…
Peter Eisenman is an internationally recognized architect and educator whose award-winning large-scale housing and urban design projects, innovative facilities for educational institutions, and series of inventive private houses attest to…
Oz Architecture is an award winning firm that has been in practice for more than 50 years. Their work is a result of a creative integration of innovation, research, critique…
Have you ever had trouble understanding the manufacturing process of a material, or the details of steel or wood joinery? Isn’t it frustrating to explain the working of your product…