Architects

Birth date and location: 25 Jan 1944, Lausanne/SwitzerlandArchitectural style: Postmodernism, DeconstructivismFamous works: Acropolis Museum, Parc de la VilletteArchitectural firm: Bernard Tschumi Architects (BTA) One of the pioneers of Deconstructivism in Architecture and among the greatest...

Frank Gehry, whose real name is Ephraim Goldberg, is a Canadian born architect of Jewish origin. He had moved with his family to California before he went to college. After completing his undergraduate education...

Famous Chinese American architect I. M. Pei, with the fully name Ieoh Ming Pei, borned in Guangzhou, city of China, in 1917. He moved to America for the purpose of education in 1935. Here...

Antoni Gaudi is a famous Catalan architect who lived between 1852-1926. Gaudi is one of the most important exponents of Modernism and Art Nouveau movements. Even though, these movements influenced Gaudi’s architectural style, his...

Frank Lloyd Wright is undoubtedly one of the most important architects of modern architecture history and the 20th century. The spread of modernity accelerated in the 20th century, with increasing urbanization, the development of...

Zaha Hadid, "Queen of the Curve", the woman steering the architecture... She is a design icon with both her unique style, characteristic features and the new excitement that she brought to the architecture. The...

Le Corbusier, with his original name as Charles Edouard Jeanneret, was born on October 6, 1887 in a small town in Switzerland. Although we know him with his architecture, he is also a urbanist,...