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Modern architecture
Modern architecture is art with similar characteristics, primarily the simplification of form and creation of ornament from the structure and theme of the building. The first variants were conceived early in the 20th century. Modern architecture was adopted by many influential architects and...
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Pietro Belluschi
Pietro Belluschi (August 18, 1899 – February 14, 1994) was an American architect, a leader of the Modern Movement in architecture, and was responsible for the design of over one thousand buildings.
Born in Italy, Belluschi's architectural career...
Date of birth:
- Aug 18, 1899
Date of death:
- Feb 14, 1994 (age 94 years)
Alvar Aalto
Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (February 3 1898, Kuortane – May 11 1976, Helsinki) was a Finnish architect and designer, sometimes called the "Father of Modernism" in the nordic countries. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware....
Date of birth:
- Feb 3, 1898
Date of death:
- May 11, 1976 (age 78 years)
Philip Johnson
Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906– January 25, 2005) was an influential American architect. With his thick, round-framed glasses, Johnson was the most recognizable figure in American architecture for decades.
In 1930, he founded the Department...
Date of birth:
- Jul 8, 1906
Date of death:
- Jan 25, 2005 (age 98 years)
Walter Gropius
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (May 18, 1883 – July 5, 1969) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture....
Date of birth:
- May 18, 1883
Date of death:
- Jul 5, 1969 (age 86 years)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies (March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect. He was commonly referred to and addressed by his surname, Mies, by his colleagues, students, writers, and others.
Ludwig...
Date of birth:
- Mar 27, 1886
Date of death:
- Aug 17, 1969 (age 83 years)
Le Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, who chose to be known as Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965), was a Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, writer and also painter, who is famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called...
Date of birth:
- Oct 6, 1887
Date of death:
- Aug 27, 1965 (age 77 years)
Otto Wagner
Otto Koloman Wagner (13 July 1841 – 11 April 1918) was an Austrian architect.
Wagner was born in Penzing, a district in Vienna. He studied in Berlin and Vienna. In 1864, he started designing his first buildings in the historicist style. In the mid-...
Date of birth:
- Jul 13, 1841
Date of death:
- Apr 11, 1918 (age 76 years)
Adolf Loos
Adolf Loos (10 December 1870 – 23 August 1933) was one of the most important and influential Austrian and Czechoslovak architects of European Modern architecture. In his essay Ornament and Crime he repudiated the florid style of the Vienna Secession...
Date of birth:
- Dec 10, 1870
Date of death:
- Aug 23, 1933 (age 62 years)
Louis Sullivan
Louis Henri Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) was an American architect, and has been called the "father of modernism." He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper, was an influential architect and critic of the...
Date of birth:
- Sep 3, 1856
Date of death:
- Apr 14, 1924 (age 67 years)
Eero Saarinen
Eero Saarinen (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈeːro ˈsaːrinen]) (August 20, 1910 – September 1, 1961) was a Finnish American architect and product designer of the 20th century famous for varying his style according to the demands of the project: simple,...
Date of birth:
- Aug 20, 1910
Date of death:
- Sep 1, 1961 (age 51 years)
Frank Gehry
Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, February 28, 1929) is a Canadian Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles.
His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. Many museums, companies, and...
Date of birth:
- Feb 28, 1929 (age 80 years)
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 projects, which resulted in more than 500 completed works. Wright promoted...
Date of birth:
- Jun 8, 1867
Date of death:
- Apr 9, 1959 (age 91 years)
Charles Eames
Charles Eames (June 17, 1907 ￢ﾀﾓ August 21, 1978) (pronounced ) was an American design, architect and film who, together with his wife Ray, is responsible for many classic, iconic designs of the 20th century.
Charles Ormond Eames, Jr was born in...
Date of birth:
- Jun 17, 1907
Date of death:
- Aug 21, 1978 (age 71 years)
Louis Kahn
Louis Isadore Kahn (born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky) (February 20, 1901 or 1902 – March 17, 1974) was a world-renowned architect of Estonian Jewish origin, based in Philadelphia, United States. After working in various capacities for several companies...
Date of birth:
- Feb 20, 1901
Date of death:
- 1974 (age 72 years)
Richard Neutra
Richard Joseph Neutra (April 8, 1892 – April 16, 1970) is considered one of modernism's most important architects.
Neutra was born in Vienna on April 8 1892. He studied under Adolf Loos at the Technical University of Vienna, was influenced by Otto...
Date of birth:
- Apr 8, 1892
Date of death:
- Apr 16, 1970 (age 78 years)
Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright, Jr. (March 30, 1890, Oak Park, Illinois – May 31, 1978, Santa Monica, California), commonly known as Lloyd Wright, was an American landscape architect and architect, most active in Southern California.
His mother was Catherine...
Date of birth:
- Mar 30, 1890
Date of death:
- May 31, 1978 (age 88 years)
Rudolf Schindler
Rudolph Michael Schindler (born Rudolf Michael Schindler, 1887–1953) was an Austrian and later, an American architect whose most important works were built in or near Los Angeles during the early to mid-twentieth century.
Although he worked and...
Date of birth:
- 1887
Date of death:
- Aug 22, 1953 (age 66 years)
Pierre Koenig
Pierre Koenig (October 17, 1925 – April 4, 2004) was an American architect.
Born in San Francisco, received his B.Arch. in 1952 from the University of Southern California, apprenticed under Raphael Soriano among others, and in private practice...
Date of birth:
- Oct 17, 1925
Date of death:
- Apr 4, 2004 (age 78 years)
Albert Frey
Albert Frey (b. October 18, 1903, Zurich – d. November 14, 1998, Palm Springs, California) was a prolific architect who established a style of modern architecture centered around Palm Springs, California that came to be known as "desert modernism"....
Date of birth:
- Oct 18, 1903
Date of death:
- Nov 14, 1998 (age 95 years)
E. Stewart Williams
Emerson Stewart Williams, FAIA (1909–September 10, 2005) was a prolific Palm Springs, California-based architect whose distinctive modernist style buildings significantly shaped the Coachella Valley's architectural landscape.
E. Stewart Williams's...
Date of birth:
- 1909
Date of death:
- Sep 10, 2005 (age 96 years)
Raphael Soriano
Raphael S. Soriano, FAIA, (August 1, 1904–July 21, 1988) was an influential architect and educator who helped define a period of 20th century architecture that came to be known as Mid-century modern. Soriano pioneered the use of modular...
Date of birth:
- Aug 1, 1904
Date of death:
- Jul 21, 1988 (age 84 years)
Lawrence Nield
Lawrence Nield is a Principal of Bligh Voller Nield. He has had for
many years a special interest in urban design architecture and sports
events planning. He was deeply involved in planning and architecture of
the Sydney Olympic Games and...
Angelo Mangiarotti
Architect, Designer, Sculptor
Peter Kulka
Peter Kulka (* 20. Juli 1937 in Dresden) ist ein deutscher Architekt der Gegenwart. Peter Kulka absolvierte eine Maurerlehre und anschließend eine Ausbildung zum Ingenieur in der Fachrichtung Architektur an den Bauschulen in Görlitz und in...
Date of birth:
- Jul 20, 1937 (age 72 years)
