He designed the Wassily Chair and the Cesca Chair

A Finnish Architect who was part of Modern Movement of Architecture but he developed his own style, based on modernist architecture combined with the usage of local materials and his own personal expression.

“Form must have a content and that content must be linked with nature.”

German Architect noted for his influential role in the development of modern architecture in Germany, best known for his early pioneering AEG Turbine Hall in Berlin 1909. Ludwig Mies van de Rohe, Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius worked for him when they are starting.

“Design is not about decorating functional forms-it is about creating forms that accord with the character of the object and that show new technologies to advantage.”

"Structure is not just a means to a solution. It is also a principle and a passion." • "I am as much interested in the smallest detail as in the whole structure." • "Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude" • "The artist works with the highest level of feeling. The technician works with the highest level of logic."

Spanish/Swiss Architect known for his bridges supported by single leaning pylons and his railway stations, stadiums and museums whose sculptures forms often resemble living organism. His Style has been heralded as bridging the division bet. Strucural Engineering and Architecture

• "I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art." • "The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.” • "The most touching thing that anyone can say to me is that I have done something beautiful for the community." • "I am always searching for more light and space." • "The architect needs to learn to see, and to open his eyes because there is always a lesson to learn from the streets."

"Architecture is the learned game; correct and magnificent of forms assembled in the light. • "I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies" • "Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure." "Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep." • "A house is a machine for living in." order and that hierarchy." • "The home should be the treasure chest of living."

Full name: Charles -Édouard Jeanneret -Gris a Swiss -French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer and one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. • The 5 Points of Modern Architecture in Contemporary Projects 1. Pilotis. Lifting a building over pilots frees the ground floor for the circulation of people and vehicles 2. Free Design of the Ground Plan 3. Free Design of the Facade 4. Horizontal Windows 5. Roof Garden

*A bldg. is the combination of different geometric figures."

British-born architect and civil engineer who established architecture as a profession in the United States, the most original proponent of the Greek Revival style in American building. • He is famous for his work on the United States Capitol in Washington DC - when he reworked the original design by William Thornton, after the fire of 1814. • He brought from England influences of British Neoclassicism, and was able to combine it with styles introduced by Thomas Jefferson, to devise an American Greek Revival

'If I were a European Classical architect I too would have placed something in the center, but here intentionally. I have not done that because this lack of center is a characteristic of Japanese architecture." • "When I am asked to define my style I would probably say that it is a symbiotic style. What I mean is the simultaneous expression of conflicting things in a • symbiotic manner, that's my style • "Architecture (is) a theatre stage setting where the leading actors are the people and to dramatically direct the dialogue between these people and space is the technique of designing." • "In Japan, architects find the tea house very important, because it exemplifies all the aspects of Japanese aesthetic sensibility. European art and architecture pursue permanence and symmetry; whereas a Japanese tea house aspires to achieving absolute asymmetry.”

A leading Japanese architect and one of the founders of the Metabolist Movement. He cofounded the Metabolist Movement in 1960, It was a radical Japanese avant-garde movement pursuing the merging and recycling of architecture styles within an Asian context. • He wrote extensively on philosophy and architecture and lectured widely. He wrote that there are two traditions inherent in any culture: the visible and the invisible.

• A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same. • Infrastructure is much more important than architecture."

Dutch architect known for buildings and writings that embrace the energy of modernity. • Also an architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. • He created architecture that, utilizing the best of modern technology and materials, spoke to the needs of a particular site and client. • co-founder of Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), receiver of the Pritzker Prize Award in 2000.

• "Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love." • "A room is not a room without natural light." • "I try to create homes, not houses." • "Architecture is the thoughtful making of space."

•modern architect in the post-World War II United States, known for his monumental and brutalist style while highlighting the materials involved in a building's construction • Distinctive style: Heavy brick and concrete against more refined surfaces, such as glass. • He valued mass and weight and wanted to bring back the presence of the symbolic and monumental into architecture. • Philosophy: hoped to design enduring forms that would help to facilitate family and community life.

• Was an American architect best known for his works of modern and postmodern architecture. • Among his best-known designs are his modernist Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut; the postmodern 550 Madison Avenue in New York, designed for AT&T. • With Henry-Russell Hitchcock he wrote The International Style: Architecture Since 1922, which provided a description of post-World War I modern architecture. • His mentor, was Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, with whom he worked on the widely praised Seagram Building.

• Architecture is the art of how to waste space.' • "All architects want to live beyond their deaths." • "Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space." • "Architecture is art, nothing else." • I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life."

• British-Iraqi architect, artist and designer, recognised as a major figure in architecture of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. • Known for her radical deconstructivist designs. She was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 2004. • She received the UK's most prestigious architectural award, the Stirling Prize, In 2010 and 2011. • In 2012, she was made a Dame by Elizabeth Il for services to architecture. • Was nicknamed, "Queen of the Curve"

• "I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think." • "Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person." • "Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough." • "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." • "What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished."

• Was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School • Along with Alvar Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture. • a leading architect of the International Style. He joined the office of the renowned architect and industrial designer Peter Behrens, one of the first members of the utilitarian school.

• Architecture begins where engineering ends. •In all great epochs of history the existence of standards that is the conscious adoption of type-forms - has been the criterion of a polite, well-ordered society; for it is a commonplace that repetition of the same things for the same purpose exercises a settling and civilizing influence on men's minds."

• "To create, one must first question everything. • "A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation."

• Was an Irish architect and furniture designer who became a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture. • Her exquisite work sometimes arose envy among other designers and she was often disregarded for being a woman. She even accused the modernist mastermind Le Corbusier of vandalizing the walls of one of her architectonic works, the E-1027. • Le Corbusier often stayed at E -1027 and although he admired it, in 1938/1939 he painted its walls with Cubist murals of naked women.This violated Gray's express wish that E-1027 be free of any decoration.

• "A skyscraper is a machine that makes the land pay." • "It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject." • "To become an Architect in the right sense of the word means that a man shall give his life to it and nothing else, and shall study the work he has to do with enthusiastic interest in every detail pertaining to it, and content himself with nothing less than complete success." • "Beware of over -confidence; especially in matters of structure."

• Was a prominent American architect. An early proponent of skyscrapers, his works include the Woolworth Building, the United States Supreme Court building, the state capitols of Minnesota, Arkansas and West Virginia; and the Detroit Public Library, the Saint Louis Art Museum and Public Library. • His public buildings in the Beaux Arts style reflect the optimistic American sense that the nation was heir to Greek democracy, Roman law and Renaissance humanism. • was a conservative who believed architecture should reflect historic traditions and the established social order.

• Canadian American architect and designer whose original, sculptural, often audacious work won him worldwide renown. • His works are considered among the most important of contemporary architecture in the 2010 World Architecture Survey, leading Vanity Fair to call him "the most important architect of our age. • His style is considered deconstructivist, a movement in postmodern architecture where elements of the design appear to be fragmented. His architecture is typically characterized by flowing lines, and surfaces that vary from titanium cladding to metal Blobitectural modular parts.

• Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness." • "I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull." • "I work from the inside out." • "A well- designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books." • "It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone." • I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings." • "Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it." • "An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that."

• "Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first." • "The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. But man does not create..he discovers. Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. Copiers do not collaborate. Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin." • "Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator" • "Originality consists of returning to the origin*

• Was a Catalan architect from Spain known as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernism. His works have a highly individualized. • His work was influenced by his passions in life: architecture, nature, and religion. He considered every detail of his creations and integrated into his architecture such crafts as ceramics, stained glass, wrought ironwork forging and carpentry. • Under the influence of neo-Gothic art and Oriental techniques, he became part of the Modernista movement.

• American engineer, architect, and futurist who developed the geodesic dome - lightweight, cost-effective, and easy to assemble, geodesic domes enclose more space without intrusive supporting columns than any other structure; they efficiently distribute stress; and they can withstand extremely harsh conditions. • One of his lifelong interests was using technology to revolutionize construction and improve human housing. He designed the Dymaxion House - based on the words "dynamic," "maximum," and "tension," the word became synonymous with his design philosophy of "doing more with less."

• "Dare to be naive." • "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. • To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." • "When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty...... but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. • "Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease."

• British architect known for his sleek modern buildings made of steel and glass. • Closely associated with the development of high-tech architecture, He is recognised as a key figure in British modernist architecture. • He is the president of the Norman Foster Foundation, created to promote interdisciplinary thinking and research to help new generations of architects, designers and urbanists to anticipate the future. • His earliest works explored the idea of a technologically advanced "shed," meaning a structure surrounded by a lightweight shell or envelope.

• "If you weren't an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect." • "As an architect you design for the future which is essentialy if the past • "Architecture is an expression of values." • "It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless." • "Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place."

• Spanish-born architect, designer of reinforced - concrete structures distinguished by thin, curved shells that are extremely strong and economical. • He is known for redefining the role of the architect in relation to structural problems, and played a crucial role in the development of new structural forms of concrete. • His major contribution to architecture was the development of thin shells made out of reinforced concrete, popularly known as cascarones.

• He followed three typical philosophies, first that use of natural resources should be encouraged and there should be minimal usage of materials in construction; • secondly, the cost of the project should be reduced by interconnecting structure and design; • and last was to make beautiful forms. • His works will take you through his journey from simple forms to complex geometries and why he is rightly branded as the magician of structural expressions.

His style of architecture is called the Prairie style. was an architect and writer, an abundantly creative master of American architecture. His “Prairie style” became the basis of 20th-century residential design in the United States.

1st National Artists for Architecture on 1973

2nd National Artists for Architecture on 1976

3rd National Artists for Architecture on 1990

4th National Artists for Architecture on 2006

5th National Artists for Architecture on 2014

6th National Artists for Architecture on 2018

"Form follows function"

"Form does not necessarily follow function"

"Every great architect is- necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age" "Form follows function- that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union"

"Architecture is the reaching out for the truth" "A house is a house"

"Cube within a cube" "The house is a machine for living in" "Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light."

"A bridge is like a house"

"Less is a bore"

"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins" "Less is more" "Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space"

"Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die" "Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood"