Louis Kahn is known for his contributions
to architecture as both a visionary and a
Yale University Art Gallery
Villa Savoye, Poissy, Paris, France
Looshaus, Vienna
Einstein Tower, Potsdam, Germany
Farnsworth House, Illinois, Chicago
professor, having famously designed the
Yale University Art Gallery along with
countless commissions around the U.S. for
museums, libraries, and research institutes.
Father of International Style
Adolf Loos was the founding thinker and
creator of the Modern architectural style.
Loos' controversial views played out in
writings such as 'Ornament and Crime' and
in his buildings, like the Looshaus, where
Loos challenged Vienna to embrace the
march of progress and turn away from Art
Nouveau and ornamental designs.
He is a German architect known initially for
his Einstein Tower in Potsdam, a notable
example of German Expressionism in
architecture, and later for his use of modern
materials and construction methods to
make what he saw as organically unified
buildings.
His works introduced a new level of
simplicity and transparency, and his
buildings were often referred to as "skin-
and-bones" architecture for their emphasis
on steel structure and glass enclosure.
He is an architect and urban planner
who contributed to the plan of Manila
and Baguio
Burnham Plan for Manila
He is an architect and urban planner
who contributed to the plan of Manila
and Baguio
Biosphere Environment Museum,
Montreal, Canada
Father of fantastic architecture and
first beatified architect
Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain
He was a German architect and founder of
the Bauhaus School, who, along with Alvar
Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le
Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely
regarded as one of the pioneering masters
Bauhaus Building, Germany of modernist architecture.
Philip Johnson was an American architect
and critic. He is best known for his works of
modern architecture, including the Glass
House in New Canaan, Connecticut, and his
works of postmodern architecture,
particularly 550 Madison Avenue which was
AT&T Building, Manhattan, NY
designed for AT&T, and 190 South La Salle
Street in Chicago.

Walt Disney Concert Hall, California
Dulles International Airport, Virginia, USA
Vanna Venturi House, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
Robie House, Chicago, Illinois
Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut
Frank Gehry is a Canadian-American
architect known for postmodern designs,
including the Walt Disney Concert Hall and
the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.
The main terminal of the Dulles
International Airport is a great
example of the dramatic forms that
define much of Saarinen’s work.
Dulles Airport’s sculptural roof, like
many of Saarinen’s difficult structural
ideas, was first tested in a giant scale
model.
Mr. Venturi first gained acclaim as a
theoretician and writer with his 1966 book,
“Complexity and Contradiction in
Architecture,” in which he turned Mies van
der Rohe’s famous dictum about simplicity
in design — “Less is more” — upside down,
cheekily declaring, “Less is a bore.”
Prairie-style architecture was founded by
Frank Lloyd Wright and a group of young
architects that Wright would refer to as The
New School of the Middle West. The style
reached its fullest expression in residences,
like Wright’s Robie House.
In 1978, he was awarded an American
Institute of Architects Gold Medal and in
1979 the first Pritzker Architecture Prize.
Lovell House, Los Angeles, California
National Congress of Brazil
The Shard, London
Louvre Abu Dhabi
He studied under Adolf Loos at the Vienna
University of Technology and took a job in
the office of Erich Mendelsohn after briefly
being the chief architect of the German
town of Luckenwalde in 1921. After
emigrating to America in 1923, Neutra
continued to mingle with the biggest stars
of architectural society, working under
Frank Lloyd Wright before establishing
himself as the West Coast architect by
completing his Lovell House in 1929.
Niemeyer was best known for his design of
civic buildings for Brasília, a planned city
that became Brazil's capital in 1960, as well
as his collaboration with other architects on
the headquarters of the United Nations in
New York. His exploration of the aesthetic
possibilities of reinforced concrete was
highly influential in the late 20th and early
21st centuries.
His notable buildings include the Centre
Georges Pompidou in Paris (with Richard
Rogers, 1977), The Shard in London (2012),
the Whitney Museum of American Art in
New York City (2015) and Stavros Niarchos
Foundation Cultural Center in Athens
(2016). He won the Pritzker Architecture
Prize in 1998.
Jean Nouvel is a French Architect. He won
the number of awards in his profession
including the Aga Khan Award for
Architecture, the Wolf Prize in Arts in 2005
and the Pritzker Prize in 2008.
De architectura (On architecture, published
as Ten Books on Architecture) is a treatise
on architecture written by the Roman
architect and military engineer Marcus
Vitruvius Pollio and dedicated to his patron,
the emperor Caesar Augustus, as a guide
for building projects.