WORLD FAMOUS ARCHITECT-AMERICA
WORKS & LIFE
From 'Time' 2000,'AGRAM' architectural information,Modern Architecture & Interior Design World Tour Dictionary'Park Jinbae' Design Group, Korea 1993,
U.S.A.
Auther
U.Gerber/1878-1960
Chicago transit architect. Currently has six buildings on the National Register
of Historic Places.
Bernard
Tschumi/1944-
Born in Switzerland. Tschumi studied until 1969 at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule in
Zurich. From 1970 to 1979 he taught at the Architectural Association in London,
and from 1976 also at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New
York and at Princeton University. From 1980 to 1983 he was visiting professor at
the Cooper Union School of Architecture in New York. In 1975 he organized the
exhibition.
Cesar
Pelli/1926-
Born in Tucuman, Argentina 12 October 1926.
Married, 1950, immigrated to the United States in 1952, naturalized 1964.
Associate architect, Eero
Saarinen and Associates, 1954 to 1964. Design partner, Gruen Associates, Los
Angeles, 1968-1976. Founded Cesar Pelli and Associates in 1977. Dean of the
School of Architecture, Yale University, New Haven Connecticut, 1977 to 1984.
Daniel Libeskind/1946-
Signature/2005
Born in May 12, 1946 in Lodz, Poland, an American architect of Jewish-Polish descent, who has designed many prominent and celebrated buildings. They include the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, the Denver Art Museum in the United States, the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester, United Kingdom, the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada, the Felix Nussbaum House in Osnabrück, Germany, the Jewish Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, the Wohl Centre at the Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv, Israel, as well as many more commercial and residential projects around the world. In 2003, Libeskind won the competition for the masterplan to rebuild the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan.
Eero
Saarinen/1910-1961
Eero Saarinen was the son of the celebrated Finnish
architect and first President of the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Eliel Saarinen.
Born in Helsinki, he emigrated with his family to the United States in 1923.
Initially studied sculpture at the Académie de
la Grande Chaumiére in Paris (1929/30) and later architecture at Yale University
in New Haven, Connecticut, graduating in 1934. He received a scholarship there
which enabled him to travel to Europe (1934/35). On his return, he taught at the
Cranbrook Academy of Art. In 1937, he began a collaboration with Charles Eames
which culminated in a series of highly progressive and prize-winning furniture
designs for The Museum of Modern Art´s 1940 "Organic Design in Home Furnishings"
competition. He later produced several highly successful furniture designs for
Knoll International. He worked in his father´s architectural office until
Eliel´s death in 1950. His greatest architectural project was the remarkable TWA
terminal at John F. Kennedy Airport, New York.
Frank
O.Gehry/1929-
Born
in Toronto,Canada. Experience
music project, Seattle-To help him find his way to the perfect forms for Paul
Allen's rock musem, Gehry, seen here superimposed before the final product,
began by smashing some guitars-just the way most demonstrative rockers used
to do-and playing around with the broken pieces. Gehry has become a naturalized U.S. citizen. In 1954, he
graduated from USC and began work full time with Victor Gruen Associates, where
he had been apprenticing part-time while still in school. After a year in the
army, he was admitted to Harvard Graduate School of Design to study urban
planning. When he returned to Los Angeles, he briefly worked for Pereira and
Luckman, then rejoined Gruen where he stayed until 1960.
Frank
Lloyd Wright/1867-1959
F.L.Wright is known as one of the great architects of all time. In seventy years
of practice he built about 430 structures. Long time American architects
followed the Europeans but with Wright they managed to draw attention. Although
he was locally famous before his forties with shingle style prairie houses,
later his genius became widely recognized. Most of his oeuvre consist of private
houses. He started his career as a draftsman in the Silsbee office but soon left
for Sullivan where he stayed for six years. In the mean time he married
Catharine Tobin and built a home in Oak park, his mother and sisters joined them
in Chicago.
In the office hours he worked for Sullivan in de evenings and nights
for himself. Sullivan found out and felt betrayed so Wright had to leave and
find his own commissions in the economic hard time of the end of the 19th
century. In the first years of independence he tried to "break the box" of rigid
architecture and manifested the Prairie school architecture. During this time he
built his best houses like Robie and Willits house. Then he left for Europe to
prepare a major publication of his work. He was accompanied on his trip by
Mrs.Cheney which meant a scandal in these days. After returning and several
serious problems he soon left for California. Here he developed a new style in
fact he became 'avant la lettre' a Post modern architect. He ended his days in
eclecticism.
Gordon
Bunshaft/1909-1990
Gordon Bunshaft, has been credited with opening a whole new era of skyscraper design with his first major design project in 1952, the 24-story Lever House in New York. Many consider it the keystone of establishing the International Style as corporate America's standard in architecture, at least through the 1970's. In recent years, it has been declared a historic landmark, New York's most contemporary structure to hold that distinction.
Ioh
Ming Pei/1917-
Ieoh Ming Pei is a founding partner of I. M. Pei & Partners, since evolved
to Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, based in New York City. He was born in China
in 1917. He come to the United States in 1935 to study architecture at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B. Arch. 1940) and the Harvard Graduate
School of Design (M. Arch. 1946). In 1948, he accepted the newly created post of
Director of Architecture at Webb & Knapp, Inc., the real estate development
firm, and this association resulted in major architectural and planning projects
in Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington, Pittsburgh and other cities. In 1958, he
formed the partnership of I.M.Pei & Associates, which become I.M. Pei
& Partners in 1966.
Kevin
Roche/1882-1981
Kevin Roche, the 1982 recipient of the international Pritzker Architecture
Prize, is no stranger to awards and praise. With good reason, since the body of
work accomplished by him, and with his partner of 20 years, John Dinkeloo, who
died in 1981, is truly of epic proportion.
Louis
Isidore Kahn/1901-1974
Louis Kahn was born in Saarama
Osel, Estonia in 1901. His family emigrated to the
U.S. in 1905. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a thorough
grounding the the Beaux Art school of architecture. During the 1920s and 1930s
he worked as a draughtsman and, later, as a head designer for several
Philadelphia-based firms.
Mies
van der Rohe/1886-1969
Ludwig
Mies
van der Rohe was born in Germany. Moved to America on 1938. Main
street of Berlin-Fredrich Street.
Peter
Eisenmen/1932-
Born in Nework. Members
of TAC.
Philip
Johnson/1906-
Philip Johnson was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1906, and in the years since
has become one of architecture's most potent forces. Before designing his first
building at the age of 36, Johnson had been client, critic, author, historian,
museum director, but not an architect. Since 1989, Johnson, semi-retired, has devoted his time mainly to projects of
his own, but still is a consultant to John Burgee Architects. His most recent
design is for a new School of Fine Arts for Seton Hill College in Greensburg,
Pennsylvania.
Richard
Meier/1934-
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Meier was born in Nework, New Jersey. At 49, Richard Meier was the youngest architect to receive his profession's
highest accolade, the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Shortly after receiving that
honor, he was awarded what is probably this century's most important commission,
the design of The Getty Center, an art center funded by the J. Paul Getty
Trust.
Robert
Venturi/1925-
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Venturi graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1947 and received
his M.F.A. there in 1950. He furthered his studies as a Rome Prize Fellow at the
American Academy in Rome from 1954 to 1956. Shortly after his return to this
country, he taught an architectural theory course at the University of
Pennsylvania, School of Architecture. In the past three decades since, he has
lectured at numerous other institutions including Yale, Princeton, Harvard,
UCLA, Rice and the American Academy in Rome. Photo by Byunggu Yu.
Stanley
Tigerman/1930-
Stanley Tigerman was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1930. He studied at M.I.T.,
the Chicago Institute of Design, and Yale University. After serving several
years in the Navy, he assumed the role of draftsman and designer in a series of
offices. Since 1964 he has been the Principal of Stanley Tigerman and Associates
Ltd., in Chicago. He has also taught at several Universities in the United
States.
Walter
Gropius/1883-1969
Walter
Gropius was born in Germany.
MEXICOLuise
Baraggan/1902-1988
Luis Barragan, 1902-1988, was born in Guadalajara, Mexico.
His training and schooling was in engineering, but he taught himself
architectural skills. In the 1920's, he traveled extensively in France and
Spain, and later in 1931, lived in Paris for a time, attending Le Corbusier's
lectures. His travels since then extended to Morocco in 1951. His architectural
practice was in Guadalajara from 1927 until 1936 when he moved to Mexico City
and remained until his death. His travels stimulated an interest in the native
architecture of North Africa and the Mediterranean, which he related to
construction in his own country.
BRZILOscar
Niemeyer/1907-
Born in the hillside district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
and has lived and worked in that area ever since, with occasional forays to
France and Italy.
