People and visual authors

Architects

Authors whose method shaped the built environment, from the private house to the city.

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01

Aldo Rossi

Typology, memory and the architecture of the city over timePerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Editorial illustration: Aldo Rossi
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Alejandro Aravena

Incompleteness, participation and the architecture of a public resourcePerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Editorial visualization of incremental architecture: modular housing units and a shared public passage
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Alvar Aalto

Humanist modernism, wood, light and the architecture of everyday lifePerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Editorial photographic illustration of Alvar Aalto's practice: a Finnish modernist interior, bent-wood furniture, study models and a northern landscape.
04

Álvaro Siza

Topography, light and the architecture of precise adjustmentPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Editorial illustration: Alvaro Siza
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Arata Isozaki

The ruin, time and the architecture of cultural translationPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Illustration: Арата Исодзаки
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Balkrishna Doshi

Climate, community and the architecture of open growthPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Illustration: Балкришна Доши
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Bjarke Ingels

Utopian pragmatism, hybrid typologies and the architecture of useful pleasurePerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Illustration: Бьярке Ингельс
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Charles Correa

Climate, the open sky and the architecture of the Indian cityPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Illustration: Чарльз Корреа
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David Chipperfield

Precision, reconstruction and the architecture of public continuityPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Illustration: Дэвид Чипперфилд
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Eduardo Souto de Moura

Stone, topography, and the architecture of precise resistancePerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Illustration: Эдуарду Соуто де Моура
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Eero Saarinen

Architecture of movement, corporate modernism, and expressive structurePerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Editorial illustration: Eero Saarinen
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Frank Gehry

Architecture of movement, collage, and digital productionPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Editorial illustration: Frank Gehry
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Frank Lloyd Wright

Organic architecture, the prairie house, and the invention of American spacePerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Editorial illustration: Frank Lloyd Wright
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Frei Otto

Lightweight structures, natural processes, and the architecture of minimal materialPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Illustration: Лёгкие конструкции, природные процессы и архитектура минимального материала
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Fumihiko Maki

Collective form, light, and the architecture of the long-term cityPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Illustration: Фумихико Маки
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Geoffrey Bawa

Tropical modernism, landscape and the architecture of sequential experiencePerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Illustration: Джеффри Бава
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Glenn Murcutt

Climate, light construction and the architecture of attentive presencePerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Editorial illustration: Glenn Murcutt
18

Hans Hollein

Media, the museum and the architecture of total designPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Illustration: Ханс Холляйн
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Hassan Fathy

Earth, climate and the architecture of human dignityPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Illustration: Хассан Фатхи
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I. M. Pei

Geometry, institutions and the architecture of cultural synthesisPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Editorial illustration: I. M. Pei
21

James Stirling

Fragment, route and the architecture of revisionary modernismPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Editorial illustration: James Stirling
22

Jean Nouvel

Context, light and architecture as a unique scenario of placePerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Editorial illustration: Jean Nouvel
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Kengo Kuma

The architecture of dissolution, wood, craft and the local materialPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Editorial illustration: Kengo Kuma
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Kenzo Tange

Memorial, megastructure and the architecture of postwar JapanPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Illustration: Кэндзо Тангэ
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Kisho Kurokawa

Metabolism, the capsule and the architecture of symbiosisPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Illustration: Кисё Курокава
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Kiyonori Kikutake

The marine city, changeable structure and the architecture of postwar utopiaPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Illustration: Киёонори Кикутакэ
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Le Corbusier

A machine for living, the city as a system and the architecture of a new agePerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Editorial illustration: Le Corbusier
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Lina Bo Bardi

Everyday life, collectivity and the architecture of open usePerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Editorial illustration: Lina Bo Bardi
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Louis Kahn

Monumentality, light and the architecture of institutionsPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Editorial illustration: Louis Kahn
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Universal space, the steel frame and the discipline of detailPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Editorial illustration: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Luis Barragán

The emotional architecture of colour, silence, garden and lightPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Editorial illustration: Luis Barragan
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Michael Graves

Ornament, mass design and the architecture of accessibilityPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Editorial illustration: Michael Graves
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Norman Foster

Technology, infrastructure and architecture as a system of efficiencyPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Editorial illustration: Norman Foster
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Oscar Niemeyer

The curved line, monumental plasticity and the architecture of modernist BrazilPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Editorial illustration: Oscar Niemeyer
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Peter Zumthor

Material, atmosphere and the architecture of slow perceptionPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Editorial illustration: Peter Zumthor
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Philip Johnson

Glass, influence and the architecture of cultural powerPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Illustration: Филип Джонсон
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Rem Koolhaas

Architecture as the investigation of the city, programme, scale and contemporary powerPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Editorial illustration: Rem Koolhaas
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Renzo Piano

The lightness of construction, the craft of technology and the architecture of natural lightPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Editorial illustration: Renzo Piano
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Richard Meier

White light, geometry and the architecture of modernist continuityPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Editorial illustration: Richard Meier
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Richard Rogers

Architecture of open systems, urban publicness and technological expressivenessPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Editorial illustration: Richard Rogers
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Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown

Sign, the everyday city and the architecture of complex meaningPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Editorial illustration: Venturi & Scott Brown
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Santiago Calatrava

Movement, structure and the architecture of the engineering imagePerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Editorial illustration: Santiago Calatrava
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Shigeru Ban

Paper structures, humanitarian architecture and the engineering of reusePerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Editorial illustration: Shigeru Ban
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Tadao Ando

Concrete, light, emptiness, and the architecture of inner concentrationPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Editorial illustration: Tadao Ando
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Toyo Ito

Lightness, the medial environment, and the architecture of the changing bodyPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Editorial illustration: Toyo Ito
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Zaha Hadid

The architecture of movement, tension and liberated geometryPerson · ArchitectureOpen →
Editorial illustration: Zaha Hadid