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
