Designer Michael Graves (1934-2015) was an American architect and product designer who became the face of Postmodernism: his Portland Building (1982) and Humana Building (1985) brought colour, ...
Frank Lloyd Wright has regarded himself as a pioneer whom people were “out of step” with. He always thought that New York City did not deserve the skyline it had at that time. He dreamed of his own ...
Oscar Niemeyer is a Brazilian architect known to be the father of modernism in South America. In the 1950s, he played a great role in designing and building his home country's new capital ...
The most famous Gothic cathedrals include Notre-Dame de Paris, Chartres, Amiens, Reims, Cologne, Milan and Canterbury, along with Westminster Abbey, which is a Gothic church but not a cathedral. They ...
Founder of the Design Museum of London and CNN journalist, Stephen Bayley has selected the Pavilion de l’Esprit Nouveau—designed by Le Corbusier, as one of the ’20 designs that defined the modern ...
During World War II, the German aircraft bombed an area in the heart of London that comprised a Roman wall called the Barbican. The 35-acre demolished area was once a historic site from the Roman ...
Paolo Soleri is Arcosanti’s visionary architect, urban designer, artist, and philosopher who was mentored by Frank Lloyd Wright. Soleri, who was born and studied in Italy moved to the States after ...
Is there anything Ai Weiwei can’t do? The man is an artist, a radical, and a human rights activist. He is also extensively active in the fields of architecture, sculpture, photography, and ...
Postmodernism buildings are those of the movement that, from the 1960s to the early 1990s, brought back ornament, colour, symbolism and references to history after decades of plain modernist boxes. ...
Lego Architecture is the LEGO Group's theme of building sets that recreate real buildings, landmarks and city skylines in brick. It launched in 2008 with models of Chicago's Sears Tower (now Willis ...
Contemporary Islamic architecture is recent architecture, mostly from the mid-20th century onwards, that draws on the principles of historic Islamic buildings (courtyards, controlled daylight, ...
Famous Architects design a spectrum of choices: from their safest choice to Design Their Own Family Houses, to risky choices to design controversial projects that sometimes caused them some trouble! ...
