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
02

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
03

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
05

Arata Isozaki

The ruin, time and the architecture of cultural translationPerson · ArchitectureOpen
Illustration: Арата Исодзаки
06

Balkrishna Doshi

Climate, community and the architecture of open growthPerson · ArchitectureOpen
Illustration: Балкришна Доши
07

Bjarke Ingels

Utopian pragmatism, hybrid typologies and the architecture of useful pleasurePerson · ArchitectureOpen
Illustration: Бьярке Ингельс
08

Charles Correa

Climate, the open sky and the architecture of the Indian cityPerson · ArchitectureOpen
Illustration: Чарльз Корреа
09

David Chipperfield

Precision, reconstruction and the architecture of public continuityPerson · ArchitectureOpen
Illustration: Дэвид Чипперфилд
10

Eduardo Souto de Moura

Stone, topography, and the architecture of precise resistancePerson · ArchitectureOpen
Illustration: Эдуарду Соуто де Моура
11

Eero Saarinen

Architecture of movement, corporate modernism, and expressive structurePerson · ArchitectureOpen
Editorial illustration: Eero Saarinen
12

Frank Gehry

Architecture of movement, collage, and digital productionPerson · ArchitectureOpen
Editorial illustration: Frank Gehry
13

Frank Lloyd Wright

Organic architecture, the prairie house, and the invention of American spacePerson · ArchitectureOpen
Editorial illustration: Frank Lloyd Wright
14

Frei Otto

Lightweight structures, natural processes, and the architecture of minimal materialPerson · ArchitectureOpen
Illustration: Лёгкие конструкции, природные процессы и архитектура минимального материала
15

Fumihiko Maki

Collective form, light, and the architecture of the long-term cityPerson · ArchitectureOpen
Illustration: Фумихико Маки
16

Geoffrey Bawa

Tropical modernism, landscape and the architecture of sequential experiencePerson · ArchitectureOpen
Illustration: Джеффри Бава
17

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
19

Hassan Fathy

Earth, climate and the architecture of human dignityPerson · ArchitectureOpen
Illustration: Хассан Фатхи
20

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
23

Kengo Kuma

The architecture of dissolution, wood, craft and the local materialPerson · ArchitectureOpen
Editorial illustration: Kengo Kuma
24

Kenzo Tange

Memorial, megastructure and the architecture of postwar JapanPerson · ArchitectureOpen
Illustration: Кэндзо Тангэ
25

Kisho Kurokawa

Metabolism, the capsule and the architecture of symbiosisPerson · ArchitectureOpen
Illustration: Кисё Курокава
26

Kiyonori Kikutake

The marine city, changeable structure and the architecture of postwar utopiaPerson · ArchitectureOpen
Illustration: Киёонори Кикутакэ
27

Le Corbusier

A machine for living, the city as a system and the architecture of a new agePerson · ArchitectureOpen
Editorial illustration: Le Corbusier
28

Lina Bo Bardi

Everyday life, collectivity and the architecture of open usePerson · ArchitectureOpen
Editorial illustration: Lina Bo Bardi
29

Louis Kahn

Monumentality, light and the architecture of institutionsPerson · ArchitectureOpen
Editorial illustration: Louis Kahn
30

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Universal space, the steel frame and the discipline of detailPerson · ArchitectureOpen
Editorial illustration: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
31

Luis Barragán

The emotional architecture of colour, silence, garden and lightPerson · ArchitectureOpen
Editorial illustration: Luis Barragan
32

Michael Graves

Ornament, mass design and the architecture of accessibilityPerson · ArchitectureOpen
Editorial illustration: Michael Graves
33

Norman Foster

Technology, infrastructure and architecture as a system of efficiencyPerson · ArchitectureOpen
Editorial illustration: Norman Foster
34

Oscar Niemeyer

The curved line, monumental plasticity and the architecture of modernist BrazilPerson · ArchitectureOpen
Editorial illustration: Oscar Niemeyer
35

Peter Zumthor

Material, atmosphere and the architecture of slow perceptionPerson · ArchitectureOpen
Editorial illustration: Peter Zumthor
36

Philip Johnson

Glass, influence and the architecture of cultural powerPerson · ArchitectureOpen
Illustration: Филип Джонсон
37

Rem Koolhaas

Architecture as the investigation of the city, programme, scale and contemporary powerPerson · ArchitectureOpen
Editorial illustration: Rem Koolhaas
38

Renzo Piano

The lightness of construction, the craft of technology and the architecture of natural lightPerson · ArchitectureOpen
Editorial illustration: Renzo Piano
39

Richard Meier

White light, geometry and the architecture of modernist continuityPerson · ArchitectureOpen
Editorial illustration: Richard Meier
40

Richard Rogers

Architecture of open systems, urban publicness and technological expressivenessPerson · ArchitectureOpen
Editorial illustration: Richard Rogers
41

Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown

Sign, the everyday city and the architecture of complex meaningPerson · ArchitectureOpen
Editorial illustration: Venturi & Scott Brown
42

Santiago Calatrava

Movement, structure and the architecture of the engineering imagePerson · ArchitectureOpen
Editorial illustration: Santiago Calatrava
43

Shigeru Ban

Paper structures, humanitarian architecture and the engineering of reusePerson · ArchitectureOpen
Editorial illustration: Shigeru Ban
44

Tadao Ando

Concrete, light, emptiness, and the architecture of inner concentrationPerson · ArchitectureOpen
Editorial illustration: Tadao Ando
45

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