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ARCHITECTS
She was described
by The
Iraqi-British Guardian of
architect. London as the
"Queen of the
curve"
She was the first
woman to receive
the Pritzker
Architecture Prize
Zaha Hadid
(Arabic: ;)زها حديد
31 October
1950 – 31 March
2016)
Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul, Korea
Sheikh Zayed Bridge, Abu-Dhabi
which led Vanity
is a Canadian-born Fair to label him as
American architect "the most important
architect of our age”
His works are cited as
being among the most
important works
of contemporary
architecture in the
2010 World
Architecture Survey
Frank Owen Gehry
February 28, 1929
Gehry Residence in Santa Monica, California
Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles
Libeskind's work
is a Jewish Polish-
has been exhibited
American architect,
in major museums
artist, professor and
and galleries
set designer
around the world
Libeskind founded
Studio Daniel
Libeskind in 1989
with his wife, Nina,
and is its principal
design architect.
Daniel Libeskind
May 12, 1946
ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Toronto, Canada
JEWISH MUSEUM BERLIN Berlin, Germany
His new stature led
to his selection as
is a Chinese chief architect for
American architect the John F. Kennedy
Library in
Massachusetts
Pei's first major
recognition came
with the National
Center for
Atmospheric
Research in Colorado
Ieoh Ming Pei
26 April 1917
John F. Kennedy Library Boston, MA
Le Grand Louvre, Paris
He is widely
is a Dutch architect, regarded as one of
architectural the most important
theorist, urbanist a architectural thinkers
nd Professor and urbanists of his
generation
Koolhaas is the
founding partner
of OMA
Remment Lucas
"Rem" Koolhaas
17 November 1945
CCTV Headquarters Rem Koolhaas (OMA) Beijing, China
De Rotterdam Rem Koolhaas (OMA) Rotterdam, Netherlands
The 1970 Osaka structure
was greatly admired by
is the British
an Italian architect architect Richard Rogers,
and engineer and in 1971 the two men
decided to open their own
firm, Piano and Rogers
He won the Pritzker
Architecture Prize in 1998.
Renzo Piano
14 September 1937
The Biosphere in the Old Port of Genoa
Facade of the Centre Pompidou, Paris
He is a
is a British architect
winner of
the RIBA
Gold Medal
noted for
his modernist and f
unctionalist designs
in high-tech
architecture
Richard George
Rogers
23 July 1933
The Millennium Dome, London, UK
European Court of Human Rights building
He has obtained a
number of
prestigious
distinctions over
is a French architect the course of his
career, including
the Aga Khan
Award for
founding member Architecture
of Mars
1976 and Syndicat
de l'Architecture
Jean Nouvel
12 August 1945
Torre Aigües de Barcelona (Agbar), Barcelona
Tower 25, Nicosia, 2011
He is one of
Britain's most
prolific architects of
is an English his generation. In
architect 1999, he was
awarded
the Pritzker
He is the United Architecture Prize
Kingdom's biggest
builder of landmark
office buildings.
Norman Robert Foster
1 June 1935
Foster and Partners London Office
HSBC Hong Kong Headquarters
schumi is a dual
is an architect, French-Swiss
writer, and national who works
educator and lives in New
York City and Paris
commonly
associated with
deconstructivism
Bernard Tschumi
25 January 1944
Blue Condominium in New York City
Parc de la Villette Paris
to his current
concern with
a phenomenologica
l approach; that is,
American architect
with a concern for
and watercolorist
man's existentialist,
bodily engagement
Holl's architecture with his
has undergone a surroundings
shift in emphasis,
from his earlier
concern
with typology
Steven Holl
December 9, 1947
Steven Holl's design for Simmons Hall of MIT
Bloch Building expansion of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in
Kansas City, Missouri
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Buildings
Architects: Ai Weiwei, Pierre de
Meuron, Jacques Herzog, Li Xinggang
Date opened: June 28 2008
Descriptions :
• the original inspiration “ the nest”
• The stadium consists of two
independent structures, standing 50
feet apart a red concrete seating
bowl and the outer steel frame
around it.
• With the removal of the retractable
roof, the building was lightened,
which helped it stand up to seismic
activity
Beijing National Stadium
Architects: Adrian Smith, William F.
Baker, George J. Efstathiou, Marshall
Strabala
Date opened :January 4 2010
Descriptions :
• Tallest building ever built
• Burj Khalifa boast 2957 parking
spaces, 304 hotels and 900
apartments
• The shape is more suitable for the hotels
and residences, in which the scenery from
the outdoor should be highly concerned,
the Y-shape design can provide the people
living in it with views to the greatest extent
The Burj Khalifa
Architects: Norman Foster,
Ken Shuttleworth
Date opened:
December 2003 and opened on
28 April 2004.
Descriptions:
• The building uses energy-saving methods
which allow it to use only half the power
that a similar tower would typically
consume. Gaps in each floor create six
shafts that serve as a natural ventilation
system for the entire building
• Architects promote double glazing in
residential houses, which avoids the
inefficient convection of heat across the
relatively narrow gap between the panes,
but the tower exploits this effect.
30 St Mary Axe
Architect: Frank Gehry
Date Opened: October 18 1997
Descriptions:
• The curves on the exterior of
the building were intended to
appear random
• The museum is seamlessly
integrated into the urban
context, unfolding its
interconnecting shapes of
stone
• The museum is clad in glass,
titanium, and limestone
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Architect: Frank Gehry
Date opened : October 2014
Descriptions:
• Inspired by the glass Grand
Palais
• The two-story structure has 11
galleries of different sizes,[a
voluminous 350-seat auditorium
on the lower-ground floor and
multilevel roof terraces for
events and art installations
The Louis Vuitton Foundation
Architect: Minoru Yamasaki, Emery Roth,
David Childs (Present)
Date Opened :April 4, 1973
May 2006 (Rebuild)
Descriptions:
• The original World Trade
Center featured the landmark
Twin Towers, which opened
on, and were the tallest building
in the world at their completion
• The cubic base has a footprint
identical to the original Twin
Towers. The surface of the base is clad in
more than 2,000 pieces of shimmering
prismatic glass.
World trade center
Architect :Frank Darling and John A.
Pearson(Original building)
Daniel Libeskind(Crystal)
Descriptions:
• The structure is heavily massed
and punctuated by rounded and
segmented arched windows with
heavy surrounds and hood
moldings
• The crystalline form is clad in 25
percent glass and 75
percent aluminum, sitting on top
of a steel frame
Architect: Santiago Calatrava
Date Opened: 2001
Descriptions:
• The brief stipulated a new grand
entrance, a point of orientation
for visitors, and a redefinition of
the museum’s identity through
the creation of a strong image
• Canted concrete columns extend down
the center of the garage, forming a
skeleton-like series of elements shaped
like the letter “V.”
• The pavilion features a spectacular kinetic
structure, a brise-soleil with louvers that
open and close like the wings of a great
bird.
Milwaukee Art Museum
