Greatest Architects of All Time
                     
Greatest Architects of All Time



Greatest Architects of All Time


Antoni Gaudi
 
Gaudi spent his entire career 
in Barcelona, where he built 
all his projects, the favourite 
being the 1883 cathedral 
referred to as La Sagrada 
Familia, still being built today. 
His style was a luxuriant 
mixture of Baroque, Medieval, 
Moorish and Victorian factors 
that frequently featured 
ornamental tile-work, and 
came upon forms present in 
nature. 


Frank Lloyd Wright
 
A Wisconsin native, Wright 
transform 20th-century architect, 
and the mid western upbringing 
performed a vital role in shaping 
his sensibility. Inspired through the 
low-laying building that dotted the 
American plains, Wright produced 
the Prairie House style like a 
reaction the current Victorian 
aesthetic, which emphasized dark 
decor, and busy embellishments 
both inside and outside. 


Mies Van der Rohe
 
Famously holding towards 
the proposition that “less is 
much more,” German 
architect Mies Van der Rohe 
stripped architecture to 
elemental geometric forms, 
pointing the best way to 
Minimalism. 

Image Credit:Wikipedia


Philip Johnson
 
Johnson’ role in the founding director of MoMA’s 
Department of Architect had a massive impact in 
the game, making them a gatekeeper who helped 
to shape architectural trends from 1935 forward.


Eero Saarinen
 
Throughout the postwar era, the Bauhaus’s 
straight-line philosophy become the Worldwide 
Style, a tight schedule-to aesthetic for brand new 
business headquarters and government office 
structures all over the world.

Image Credit:CIA


Richard Rogers
 
Once the Pompidou Center first opened up in 
1977, it had been think about the epitome of the 
trend at that time known variously as Hi-tech and 
Structural Expressionism.


Frank Gehry
 
This West Coast architect is unquestionably the 
favourite on the planet at this time, because of 
his 1997 the perception of the Guggenheim 
Museum branch in Bilbao, The country. 

Image Credit:Dezeen


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