INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECT

AND WORKS
ANTONI GAUDI

SAGRADA FAMILIA

PALAU GUELL PARK GUELL

CASA VICENS

STYLE: ART NOUVEAU

CASA BATLLO CHURCH OF COLONIA GUELL

CASA MILA
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM (N.Y.)

JOHNSON WAX HQ
HOLLYHOCK HOUSE

• “I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”

• “Form follows function - that has been
misunderstood. Form and function should
STYLE: ORGANIC be one, joined in a spiritual union. ”
ARCHITECTURE TALIESIN WEST (ARIZONA) • “Study nature, love nature, stay close to
nature. It will never fail you.”
• “Less is only more where more is no good.”

KENTUCK KNOB

ROBIE HOUSE
FRANK GEHRY

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM (BILBAO) PEIX (FISH) (BARCELONA) DANCING HOUSE (PRAGUE)

STYLE:
DECONSTRUCTIVISM LOUIS VUITTON
WALT DISNEY
FOUNDATION (PARIS) HOTEL MARQUÉS DE RISCAL,
CONCERT HALL (LA)
ELCIEGO

POP CULTURE MUSEUM

LUDWIG MIES VAN DE ROHE

FARNSWORTH HOUSE S.R. CROWN HALL

STYLE: MODERNISM
• “God is in the Details.”
• “Less is More.”
• “Architecture is the will of an epoch TUGENDHAT HOUSE
translated into space.”
• “Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today WISHNICK HALL
can be given form. Only this architecture SEAGRAM BUILDING
creates.”
• “Each material has its specific characteristics
which we must understand if we want to
use it. This is no less true of steel and
concrete.”
ERNEST FLAGG

SHELDON LIBRARY

GWYNNE BUILDING

STYLE: BEAUX-ARTS
SCRIBNER BUILDING
SINGER BUILDING
HELMUT JAHN

LIBERTY PLACE
STYLE: POSTMODERN
XEROX BUILDING 1000 M

THOMPSON CENTER
ERICH MENDELSOHN

PETERSDORFF
DEPARTMENT STORE

MOSSEHAUS
EINSTEINTURM
THE EINSTEIN TOWER
STYLE: STREAMLINE
MODERN
The Father of Streamline
Moderne

DE LA WARR PAVILLION
SCHOCKEN DEPARTMENT
STORE
CESAR PELLI

BANK OF
AMERICA
CORPORATE
PETRONAS GRAN TORRE
CENTER NATIONAL
TOWERS SANTIAGO MUSEUM OF ART
(OSAKA)

WELLS FARGO
STYLE: NO PERSONAL CENTER
STYLE

SALESFORCE SHANGHAI IFC

TOWER
RENZO PIANO

THE POMPIDEAU CENTER

STYLE: NO PERSONAL THE SHARD N.Y. TIMES
STYLE

PARCO DELLA MUSICA

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF ART
I.M. PEI (IEOH MING PEI)

LE GRAND LOUVRE MUSEUM OF ISLAMIC ART

STYLE: MODERNIST
(CUBISM)
• "Life is architecture and
architecture is the mirror of life.“
• "You cannot defend your design BANK OF CHINA TOWER
without knowing what you're
designing for.“ ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF
• "Even a beautiful piece of work can
LUCE MEMORIAL CHAPEL
FAME
be overshadowed, destroyed, by
something else."
OTTO WAGNER

Kirche am Steinhof

AUSTRALIAN POST SAVINGS BANK

STYLE: ART NOUVEAU

LE CORBUSIER

VILLA SAVOYE
STYLE: MODERN NOTRE DAME DU HAUT (RONCHAMP
CHAPEL)
• "A house is a machine for living in.”
• “The home should be the treasure
chest of living.”
• “Space and light and order. Those
are the things that men need just as
much as they need bread or a place
to sleep.”
• “To create architecture is to put in
order. Put what in order? Function
and objects.”
PALACE OF THE ASSEMBLY UNITE D’HABITATION
OSCAR NIEMEYER

CATHEDRAL OF BRASILIA NATIONAL CONGRESS OF BRASILIA

STYLE: MODERN
• My work is not about "form
follows function," but "form
follows beauty" or, even better,
"form follows feminine.“
• The architect's role is to fight PALACIO DA ALVORADA
for a better world, where he (PALACE OF DAWN)
can produce an architecture
that serves everyone and not NITEROI CONTEMPORARY ART FRENCH COMMUNIST PARTY
just a group of privileged MUSEUM BUILDING
people.
SANTIAGO CALATRAVA

LIEGE-GUILLEMINS RAILWAY STATION

AUDITORIO DE TENERIFE

STYLE: CATALAN TURNING TORSO

MODERNIST
• As a building is resistant to forces
acting upon it, a person must be
equally tenacious in life.
DUBAI CREEK OBSERVATION
WORLD TRADE CENTER TOWER
STATION

MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM

ROBERT VENTURI

MUSEUM OF
CONTEMPORARY ART SAN
VANNA VENTURI HOUSE DIEGO EXTENSION

STYLE: POSTMODERN
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM
• “Less is a bore”

FIRE STATION # 4
SAINSBURY WING
HENNING LARSEN

COPENHAGEN OPERA HOUSE SPIEGEL HOUSE

STYLE: MODERNISM
• “Light and space are ROLAND LEVINSKY BLDG.
interconnected.”

THE WAVE

SIEMENS HEADQUARTERS
JEAN NOUVEL

TORRE AGBAR LOUVRE ABU DHABI

100 ELEVENTH AVE.

STYLE: NO PERSONAL
STYLE
• We shape our
buildings thereafter
they shape us.
ONE CENTRAL PARK
DOHA TOWER

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF PHILHARMONIE DE PARIS

QATAR
ZAHA HADID

HEYDAR ALIYEV CENTER GALAXY SOHO

STYLE: NO PERSONAL
STYLE ONE THOUSAND MUSEUM
• There are 360 degrees,
so why stick to one?
• Architecture is like
writing. You have to
edit it over and over so
it looks effortless
LONDON AQUATICS CENTRE

INNOVATION TOWER
VILNIUS GUGGENHEIM HERMITAGE
MUSEUM
HERZOG & DE MEURON

ELBPHILHARMONIE ALLIANZ ARENA TATE MODERN

STYLE: MODERN REDUCTIVIST

56 LEONARD 111 LINCOLN ROAD

NATIONAL STADIUM (BIRD’S
TRINITY LABAN DANCE
NEST)
CENTRE
EERO SAARINEN

TWA FLIGHT CENTER CBS BUILDING GATEWAY ARCH

STYLE: INTERNATIONAL
STYLE, MODERN

• The purpose of architecture

is to shelter and enhance
man's life on earth and to
fulfill his belief in the nobility
of his existence WASHINGTON DULLES DAVID S. INGALLS RINK BELL LABS HOLMDEL
• Function influence but does INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
not dictate form.
LOUIS SULLIVAN

WAINWRIGHT BUILDING GUARANTY HOLY TRINITY

SULLIVAN CENTER
BUILDING UNORTHODOX CATHEDRAL

STYLE: MODERNISM
FATHER OF SKYSCRAPERS AND
FATHER OF MODERNISM
• Every building is like a
person. Single and
unrepeatable.
• Form ever follows function. AUDITORIUM BUILDING PILGRIM BAPTIST
CHURCH GARRICK THEATER
BUCKMINSTER FULLER

STYLE: GEODESIC DOME

MONTREAL BIOSPHERE DYMAXION HOUSE

• I just invent, then wait until
man comes around to
needing what I've invented
• We are called to be
architects of the future, not
its victims.
PHILIP JOHNSON

CHAPEL OF ST. BASIL (UNIVERSITY OF

THE PARK AVENUE ST. THOMAS)
TOWER CRYSTAL CATHEDRAL
LIPSTICK BUILDING

STYLE: INTERNATIONAL
STYLE
• Architecture is the art of
how to waste space.
• All architecture is shelter, all
great architecture is the
design of space that
contains, cuddles, exalts, or
stimulates the persons in
that space. AT&T BUILDING ROTHKO CHAPEL PITTSBURGH PPG PLACE
RICHARD MEIER

JUBILEE CHURCH SAN JOSE CITY HALL

STYLE: RATIONALISM

• I think white is the most

wonderful color of all, because
within it one can find every color
of the rainbow.

ROTHSCHILD TOWER BARCELONA MUSEUM OF FLAGSHIP STORE OF PEEK &

CONTEMPORARY ART CLOPPENBURG
NORMAN FOSTER

LONDON CITY HALL

CRYSTAL ISLAND
STYLE: HIGH-
TECH ARCHITECTURE 30 ST. MARY AXE
INCORPORATING SUSTAINABLE THE GHERKIN THE BOW
DESIGN
• As an architect you design for the
present, with an awareness of
the past, for a future which is
essentially unknown
• Architecture is an expression of
values..
PALACE OF PEACE AND
RECONCILIATION
REICHSTAG BUILDING
NORMAN FOSTER

U2 TOWER NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY

STYLE: HIGH-
HEARST TOWER
TECH ARCHITECTURE
INCORPORATING SUSTAINABLE
DESIGN
• As an architect you design for the
present, with an awareness of
the past, for a future which is WILLIS BUILDING
essentially unknown
• Architecture is an expression of
values..

TORRE DE COLLSEROLA
HSBC BUILDING
REM KOOLHAAS

CCTV HEADQUARTERS

STYLE: MODERNIST EMBASSY OF THE ITT MCCORMICK TRIBUNE CAMPUS CENTER

DECONSTRUCTIVIST NETHERLANDS
STRUCTURALIST
HUMANIST

SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY’S

CENTRAL LIBRARY

CASA DA MUSICA
WALTER GROPIUS

MONUMENT TO
BAUHAUS BUILDING GROPIUS HOUSE THE MARCH DEAD

STYLE: MODERN
BAUHAUS SCHOOL FOUNDER
• Architecture begins where
engineering ends THE FAGUS FACTORY HARVARD GRADUATE CENTER INTERBAU
MICHAEL GRAVES

DENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY PORTLAND BUILDING MIRAMAR

STYLE: POSTMODERN

PAUL ROBESON CENTER

SOM ARCHITECTS (SKIDMORE, OWINGS, & MERRILL)

DENVER UNION STATION

WILLIS TOWER CADET CHAPEL JIANIANHUA CENTRE

ONE WORLD TRADE

JOHN HANCOCK CENTER CHASE TOWER JIN MAO TOWER BURJ KHALIFA CENTER
ALVAR AALTO

STYLE: MODERNIST FINLANDIA HALL FINNISH PAVILION WOLFSBURG CULTURAL CENTER

RICHARD NEUTRA

KAUFMANN DESERT HOUSE LOVELL HOUSE

STYLE: MODERN
• Architecture must have a
razor-sharp sense of
individuality