Modernist Architects
Name↕ | Nationality↕ | Born↕ | Died↕ | Signature Work↕ | Style↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Le Corbusier | Swiss-French | 1,887 | 1,965 | Villa Savoye (Poissy, 1931), Unite d'Habitation (Marseille, 1952) | International Style, Brutalism |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | German-American | 1,886 | 1,969 | Barcelona Pavilion (1929), Seagram Building (NYC, 1958) | International Style, 'Less is more' |
Frank Lloyd Wright | American | 1,867 | 1,959 | Fallingwater (1937), Guggenheim Museum (1959) | Organic architecture, Prairie School |
Oscar Niemeyer | Brazilian | 1,907 | 2,012 | Brasilia government buildings (1960), Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum | Curvilinear modernism |
Walter Gropius | German-American | 1,883 | 1,969 | Bauhaus Dessau building (1926), Pan Am Building (NYC) | Bauhaus, International Style |
Alvar Aalto | Finnish | 1,898 | 1,976 | Paimio Sanatorium (1933), Finlandia Hall (Helsinki, 1971) | Nordic humanist modernism |
Louis Kahn | Estonian-American | 1,901 | 1,974 | Salk Institute (1965), National Assembly of Bangladesh (1982) | Monumental modernism |
Eero Saarinen | Finnish-American | 1,910 | 1,961 | Gateway Arch (St. Louis, 1965), TWA Flight Center (JFK, 1962) | Neo-futurist modernism |
Philip Johnson | American | 1,906 | 2,005 | Glass House (New Canaan, 1949), AT&T Building (1984) | International Style to Postmodernism |
Richard Neutra | Austrian-American | 1,892 | 1,970 | Kaufmann Desert House (Palm Springs, 1946), Lovell Health House | Desert modernism, California modern |
Marcel Breuer | Hungarian-American | 1,902 | 1,981 | Whitney Museum (NYC, 1966), UNESCO HQ (Paris, 1958) | Bauhaus, Brutalism |
I. M. Pei | Chinese-American | 1,917 | 2,019 | Louvre Pyramid (Paris, 1989), Bank of China Tower (HK, 1990) | Late modernism, geometric |
Kenzo Tange | Japanese | 1,913 | 2,005 | Yoyogi National Gymnasium (Tokyo, 1964), Hiroshima Peace Memorial | Metabolism, Japanese modernism |
Paul Rudolph | American | 1,918 | 1,997 | Yale Art & Architecture Building (1963) | Brutalism |
Luis Barragan | Mexican | 1,902 | 1,988 | Casa Barragan (Mexico City, 1948), Las Arboledas | Emotional architecture, Mexican modernism |
Richard Rogers | British-Italian | 1,933 | 2,021 | Centre Pompidou (Paris, 1977), Lloyd's Building (London, 1986) | High-tech modernism |
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