Toyo Ito (born 1941), the 2013 Pritzker Prize laureate, is Japan’s great architect of lightness — his Sendai Mediatheque (2001) replaced columns with swaying tubes of steel lattice and changed…
Herzog & de Meuron, founded in Basel in 1978 by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, won the 2001 Pritzker Prize and has since produced many of this century’s defining…
Just in the last two decades, we have seen tremendous growth in Architecture and Construction. The 21st-century Architect is no longer just serving the needs of safety and security; instead,…
Pritzker Prize laureate, Renzo Piano an Italian Architect who is known for his delicate and refined approach to building, deployed in museums and other buildings around the world. His interest…
Walter Gropius (1883–1969) was a German-American architect and the founder of the Bauhaus — the school that fused art, craft, and industry and set the course of twentieth-century design. From…
Steven Holl is a New York-based American architect and watercolorist. He was awarded by Alvar Aalto Medal, AIA Gold Medal, BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, Praemium Imperiale. Here are…
Thom Mayne (born 1944), founder of the Los Angeles studio Morphosis and 2005 Pritzker Prize laureate, builds architecture that looks beamed in from the future — the perforated-steel 41 Cooper…
SHoP Architects is known for its designs of the Barclays Center arena in Brooklyn, New York, its contract with the Howard Hughes Corporation to develop the South Street Seaport, and the…
Norman Foster (born 1935 in Manchester) is Britain’s most prolific high-tech architect and the 1999 Pritzker Prize laureate. Through Foster + Partners, founded in 1967, he has delivered era-defining structures…
A member of The New York Five and the Memphis Group — and professor of architecture at Princeton University for nearly forty years, Michael Graves was a noted American architect…
Sheffield played a crucial role in the Industrial Revolution, with many significant inventions and technologies developed in the city. In the 19th century, the city saw a huge expansion of…
Santiago Calatrava (born 1951 in Valencia) is a Spanish architect, structural engineer and sculptor whose white, skeletal structures — the Oculus in New York, the Turning Torso in Malmö, Valencia’s…