FAMOUS ARCHITECTS

AND
THEIR BUILDINGS
PART II

Ar. Sowmyaa.C
Excel College of Architecture & Planning
 I M PEI (1917 – 2019)
 Ieoh Ming Pei
 Chinese – American
Architect
 Born in Guangzhou, China
 Graduated from
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Harvard
University
 His architectural style are
Modern Architecture and
High-Tech Architecture
 Known for glass-concrete
wonders
 Winner of Royal Gold Medal,
Pritzker Prize
 HANCOCK TOWER
 Location in Massachusetts, US
 Duration : 1968 – 1976
 Building Type : Commercial
 Tallest building in Boston &
New England since 1976
 Architectural Style – High Rise
building
LOUVRE PYRAMID
 Located in Louvre Palace,
Paris
 Built in the year 1980
 It was built as the main
entrance to the Louvre Museum
 Architectural Style – Modern
Architecture, Futuristic
Architecture
 LUCE MEMORIAL CHAPEL
 Located in Xitun, Taichung,
Taiwan
 Duration : 1962-1963
 Building Type : Christian
Chapel
 Architectural Style : Modern
Architecture

MUSEUM OF ISLAMIC ARTS

 Located in Doha, Qatar

 Established on 22nd November
2008
 Building type : Art Museum
 Architectural style : Islamic
architecture
HASMUKH PATEL (1933 – 2018)
 Born in Bhadran, Gujarat
 Graduated from Maharaja
Sayajirao University, Baroda
in the year of 1956
 He did Masters in
Architecture from Cornell
University
 Founder chairman of
Ahmadabad based
Architectural firm ‘HCP Design
Planning and Management
Pvt’
 Architectural Style –
Contemporary Architecture
 AHMEDABAD MANAGEMENT
ASSOCIATION
 Located in Ahmedabad,
Gujarat
 Duration – 1997 – 2010
 Building Type – Public
Institution
 Architectural style - Modern
AHMEDABAD RIVERFRONT
DEVELOPMENT
 Location in Sabarmati river,
Ahmedabad
 Construction started in 2005
 Building type – Waterfront
 Architectural style -
Sustainable
 NEW CAMPUS IIM

 Located in Ahmedabad
 Duration: 2001 – 2009
 Building Type : Institutional
& Residential
 Architectural Style :
Contemporary

PATANG HOTEL

 Located in Ahmedabad
 Duration : 1980 – 1984
 Building Type : Commercial
 Patang Hotel can also be
called as Revolving Restaurant.
 JORN UTZON (1918 – 2008)
 Danish Architect
 Born in Copenhagen,
Denmark
 In the year of 1937 – 1942
he studied at the architectural
school at the Academy of Arts
in Copenhagen
 He used Additive
architecture to describe his
development of architectural
projects on the basis of
growth patterns in nature
 Architectural style :
Expressionist
 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF
KUWAIT
 Located in Kuwait, Persian
 Completed in the year of
1982
 Building Type : Unicameral
Legislature
 Architectural Style : Islamic
Architecture
SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
 Located in Bennelong Point,
Sydney
 Duration 1959 – 1973
 Building Type : Performing Art
Centre
 Architectural Style :
Expressionist
 LAURIE BAKER (1917-2007)
 Laurence Wilfred Baker
 British-born Indian architect
 Born in Birmingham, UK
 Graduated in 1937 from The
Birmingham School of
Architecture
 renowned for his initiatives
in cost-effective energy-
efficient architecture
 The architectural style he
followed is Sustainable
Architecture and Organic
architecture
 Used indigenous
architecture
 CENTRE FOR
DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
 Located in
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
 Established in October 9,1970
 Building Type : Research
Institute
 Architectural Style : Cost
Effective
INDIAN COFFEE HOUSE
 Located in
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
 Building Type : Public
Building, prominent landmark
 Architectural style : Neo
Vernacular architectural
 Established in 1940
 NORMAN FOSTER
 Born on 1935 at
England
 British Architect
 Sir Norman Robert
Foster
 Architectural style he
followed is Contemporary
Architecture
 He won Pritzker Prize
and Noble Prize for
Architecture
 CITY HALL LONDON
 Located in Southwark, London
 Duration : 1998 – 2002
 Architectural Style : Neo –
Futurism
 Building Type : Headquarters
of “Greater London Authority”

SAINSBURY CENTER
 Located in Norwich, England
 Duration : 1974 – 1978
 Architectural Style –
Structural Expressionism
 Building Type – Art Gallery &
Museum
 GHERKIN

 30 St Mary Axe, informally

known as The Gherkin
 Located in London, UK
 Building Type : Commercial
Skyscraper
 Architectural Style :
Sustainable architecture,
Postmodern Architecture,
High-tech architecture, Neo-
futurism
 Duration : 2001 – 2003
 This building has become a
recognisable landmark of
London
PHILIP JOHNSON (1906 – 2005)
 American Architect
 Born in Clevenland, Ohio,
USA
 Philip Cortelyou Johnson
 Best known for his works of
Modern architecture
 Completed graduation from
Harvard School of Design in
the year of 1943
 Architectural Style – Post
modern Architecture and
Modern Architecture
 In 1979 he won the first
Pritzker Prize.
 GLASS HOUSE
 Located in New Canaan,
Connecticut, US
 Duration : 1947 – 1949
 Building Type : Historic House
museum
 Architectural Style - Modern
LIPSTICK BUILDING
 Located in New York , Us
 Completed in the Year 1986
 Architectural Style – Modern
Architecture
 Building Type – Skyscraper,
Office
The building receives its name
from its shape and color, which
resembles a tube of lipstick
 CRYSTAL CATHEDRAL
 Located in city of Garden
Grove, south of California,
United States.
 The church was touted as
"the largest glass building in
the world" when it was
completed in 1981
 Duration : 1977 – 1980
 Building Type : American
Church building
 Architectural Style :
Modern Architecture
 Also known as Christ
Cathedral
 RAJ REWAL
 Born in 1934 at Hoshiyapur,
Punjab
 Indian Architect
 Graduated from Delhi
School of Architecture in the
year 1954
 He became the Associate of
the Royal Institute of British
Architects
 Style – Incorporating
historical precedents into
urban design
 He created a revolution in
geometric design systems
 ASIAD VILLAGE
 Located in, New Delhi
 Building Type : Residential
Colony developed as the
athlete’s village for 1982 asain
games held in New Delhi
 Built in the year 1982
 Architectural style -
Contemporary
HALL OF NATIONS
 Also known as Pragati Maidan
 Located in New Delhi
 Building Type – Exhibition &
Convention Centre
 Inaugurated on 3rd November
1972
 Architectural style -
Modernism
 REM KOOLHAAS

 Remment Lucas Koolhaas

 Dutch architect
 Born in 1944,
Rotterdam, Netherlands
 Architectural theorist,
urbanist and Professor in
Practice of Architecture and
Urban Design
Architectural Style –
Deconstructivism, Modernism,
Structuralism
 In 2000, Rem Koolhaas won
the Pritzker Prize
 CASA DA MUSICA
 Located in Porto, Portugal
 Inaugurated in the year 2005
 Building Type – Concert Hall
 Architectural Style -
Deconstructivism

CCTV HEADQUARTERS
 China Central Television
Headquarters
Located in Chaoyang, China
 Duration : 2004 – 2012
 Architectural Style :
Deconstructivism
 won the 2013 Best Tall Building
Worldwide from the Council on Tall
Buildings and Urban Habitat
 M.C.CORMIC TRIBUNE
 Located in Chicago, Illinois,
United States
 Duration : 1997 – 2003
 Building Type – Student Union
Campus Centre
 Architectural Style :
Deconstructivism
SEATTLE CENTRAL
LIBRARY
 Located in Seattle,
Washington
 Duration : 2002 – 2004
 Building Type – Library
 Architectural Style – Post
modern Architecture
ANDREA PALLADIO (1508 - 1580)

 Italian architect
 Born in Padua, Italy
 influenced by Roman and
Greek architecture
 He was best known for
country houses and villas
 Architectural Style –
Palladian Architecture is a
European style of
Architecture derived from
and inspired by the designs
of the Venetian Architect
Andrea Palladio
 BASILICA PALLADIANA
 Located in Veneto, Italy
 Duration : 1561 – 1597
 Architectural Style –
Renaissance Style
 Building Type – Serves as a
seat of government and
number of shops on the ground
floor
VILLA BARBARO
 Located in the Veneto region
of northern Italy
 Duration : 1549 – 1558
 Building Type : private living
quarters & provide functional
accommodation for agricultural
use
 Architectural Style - Palladian
 VILLA FOSCARI
 Located in Mira, near Venice,
northern Italy
 Duration : 1558 – 1560
 Building Type - host official
receptions
 Architectural Style – Palladian
Architecture
VILLA ROTONDA
 Located in Vicenza in
northern Italy
 Completed during the year
around 1592
 Building Type : Neo-Classical
Villa
 Architectural Style –
Renaissance & Palladian
 LE CORBUSIER (1887-1965)
 French-Swiss architect
 Charles-Édouard Jeanneret
 He was born in Switzerland
and became a French citizen
in 1930
 The architectural style he
followed is Iconic Modern
Architecture
 He is known foe innovation
in urban planning and his
solutions for low income
housing
 He is architect, designer,
painter, urban planner, writer,
and one of the pioneers of what
is now called modern
architecture
 CHANDIGARH PALACE OF
JUSTICE
 Location : Capitol Complex,
Chandigarh
 Duration : 1951 – 1962
 Building Type : Legislative
Assembly
 Architectural Style : Modern

NOTRE DAME DU HAUT

 Location : Ronchamp, France
 Duration : 1953 – 1955
 Building Type : Roman
Catholic Chapel
 Architectural Style : Modern
 UN HEADQUARTERS
 Located in Manhattan, New
York, US
 Duration : 1947 – 1952
 Building Type : Office
 Architectural Style : Modern
 Centerpiece of
the headquarters of the United
Nations
VILLA SAVOYE
 Located in Polssy, France
 Building Type : Villa
 Architectural Style : Modern
 Duration : 1929 – 1931
 Planned the entire
composition as a sequence of
spatial effects
 LOUIS KAHN (1901 – 1974)
 American Architect
 Louis Isadore Kahn
 Born in Saaremaa, Estonia,
Europe
 Graduated architecture at
The University of
Pennsylvania in 1924
 Professor of Architecture
and design critic at Yale
School of Architecture and at
the University of Pennsylvania
 Architectural Style : modern
& brutalist style
he deserves a place among
the 20th century's most
important architects
 IIM AHMEDABAD
 Location : Ahmedabad, Gujarat
 Building Type : Public Business
School
 Architectural Style : Local
Traditions with Modern Style
 Duration : 1962 - 1975

KIMBELL ART MUSEUM

 Location : Fort Worth, Texas,

USA
 Building Type : Art Museum
This Art museum was
established on 1972
 Architectural Style : Modern
Architecture
 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
DHAKA
 Located : Dhaka, Bangladesh
 Duration : 1961 - 1982
 Architectural Style : Brutalist
& Modern Architecture
Building Type : National
Assembly Building
 Also known as Jatiya Sangsad
Bhaban
SALK INSTITUTE
 Located : La Jolla, CA, US
 Duration : 1959 - 1965
 Architectural Style : Brutalist
 Building Type : Scientific
Research Institute
 HAFEEZ CONTRACTOR

 Born in Mumbai, 1950

 Graduated from University
of Mumbai
 MS from Columbia
 He was the member of the
Bombay heritage committee
 He was awarded the Padma
Bhushan in January 2016 by
the Government of India
 He has designed
many skyscrapers in India,
primarily in the city
of Mumbai
 HIRANANDANI GARDENS
 Location in Mumbai,
Maharastra
 Founded in 1989
 Building Type – Municipal
Corporation
 Architectural Style – Neo
Classical
LOKHANDWALA MINERVA
 Location in Mumbai,
Maharastra
 Construction started in 2010
 Building Type – Residential
 Architectural Style – High Rise
building
 IMPERIAL TOWERS

 Located in Tardeo, Mumbai

 Duration 2005 - 2010
 His most recognizable project
to date
 Mumbai’s tallest tower
 Built on former slum land
 Also provides free land and
rehabilitation to slum dwellers
in exchange for rights for
property development
 Building type : Residential
 Architectural Style – High Rise
building
MIES VAN DER ROHE (1886 – 1969)
 Ludwig Mies Van Der ROHE
 German-born Architect
 One of the 20th century’s
greatest architect
 Born in Aachen, Nordhein
Westfalen, Germany
 He is regarded as one of the
pioneers of modernist
architecture
 He used to call his buildings
as “skin and bones”
architecture
 He is known for the use of
the aphorisms “Less Is More”
& “God is in the details”
 BARCELONA PAVILION
 Located : Barcelona, Spain
 Duration : 1928 - 1929
 Architectural Style : Modern
Architecture & Minimalism
 Building Type :official opening
of the German section of the
exhibition

FARNSWORTH HOUSE
 Located : Plano, Illinois, US
 Duration : 1941 - 1951
 Architectural Style :
International style, Modernist
 Building Type : one-room
weekend retreat
 SEAGRAM BUILDING

 Located : New York, United

States
 The Seagram building was
completed in 1958
 Architectural Style :
International Style, Modern
architecture
 Building Type : skyscraper
 The Seagram Building is on
the National Register of Historic
Places
 It has been designated as an
official city landmark by
the New York City Landmarks
Preservation Commission
 ALVARO SIZA

 Portuguese architect
 known as Alvaro Joaquim de
Melo Siza Vieira
 Born on 25th June 1933,
Matosinhos, Portugal
 He graduated architecture at
the former School of Fine Arts
of the University of Porto
 He was awarded Pritzker
Prize in 1992
 The Architectural style he
followed is Modernism
 The Expo ’98 Portuguese
National Pavilion
 Location : banks of the Tagus
River in Lisbon, Portugal
 Duration : 1995 – 1997
 Building Type : main entrance
for World Exposition
 Architectural Style : Modern
Siza’s Floating Edifice
 Location : island in the middle
of artificial lake at New Salt
Industrial Park
 Inaugurated at the year 2014
 Building Type : Office
Complex
 Architectural Style : Modern
 Won Pritzker Prize
 RICHARD MEIER
 American Architect
 Born on 12th October 1934,
New Jersey, US
 Studied Architecture from
Cornell University in 1957
 He was deeply influenced by
the works of architects in
mid-20th century, especially
that of Le-Corbusier, Mies Van
Der Rohe and Frank Lloyd
Wright.
 He called the architectural
style called Rationalism
 He was awarded the Pritzker
Prize for Architecture in 1984
 JUBILEE CHURCH
 Location : Rome, Italy
 Building Type : Catholic Church
 Architectural Style : Modern
 Inaugurated at the year 2003
 This Jubilee Church is also
known as White Sculpture

THE ATHENAEUM
 Location : New Harmony,
Indiana
 Building type : Centre for
visitor orientation and cultural
community events
 Duration : 1975 – 1979
 Architectural Style : Modern
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