10.331 PHILIP JOHNSON

Giancarlo De Carlo - Una lezione d'urbanistica (1954)

MICHAEL HANSMEYER

ALEJANDRO ARAVENA

STEFFEN LEHMANN

NORMAN FOSTER

NORMAN FOSTER. BRITISH ARCHITECT WHOSE COMPANY MAINTAINS AN INTERNATIONAL DESIGN PRACTICE. AT YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, HE MET FORMER BUSINESS PARTNER RICHARD ROGERS. 1968 SAW THE BEGINNING OF A LONG PERIOD OF COLLABORATION WITH AMERICAN ARCHITECT RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER, WHICH CONTINUED UNTIL FULLER'S DEATH IN 1983, CATALYSTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE APPROACH TO DESIGN - FOSTER CREATED OPEN-PLAN OFFICE FLOORS LONG BEFORE OPEN-PLAN BECAME THE NORM. IN A TOWN NOT OVER-ENDOWED WITH PUBLIC FACILITIES, THE ROOF GARDENS, 25M SWIMMING POOL AND GYMNASIUM GREATLY ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF THE COMPANY'S 1200 EMPLOYEES. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

RYUE NISHIZAWA

VILANOVA ARTIGAS

ANDRÉS JAQUE

REM KOOLHAAS

MICHELLE PROVOOST

REM KOOLHAAS

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RICHARD ROGERS

RICHARD ROGERS. BRITISH ARCHITECT NOTED FOR HIS MODERNIST AND FUNCTIONALIST DESIGNS.ROGERS IS PERHAPS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS WORK ON THE POMPIDOU CENTRE IN PARIS AND THE LLOYD'S BUILDING AND MILLENNIUM DOME BOTH IN LONDON. HE IS A WINNER OF THE RIBA GOLD MEDAL AND PRITZKER PRIZE. WORKED WITH NORMAN FOSTER, AS TEAM 4 TERMED BY THE MEDIA HIGH-TECH ARCHITECTURE. WITH A TRADEMARK OF EXPOSING MOST OF THE BUILDING'S SERVICES (WATER, HEATING AND VENTILATION DUCTS, AND STAIRS) ON THE EXTERIOR, LEAVING THE INTERNAL SPACES UNCLUTTERED AND OPEN FOR VISITORS. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

REM KOOLHAAS

BUCKMINSTER FULLER

BUCKMINSTER FULLER AMERICAN ARCHITECT, AUTHOR, DESIGNER, INVENTOR, AND FUTURIST. INVENTING AND POPULARIZING TERMS SUCH AS "SPACESHIP EARTH", EPHEMERALIZATION, AND SYNERGETICS. HE ALSO DEVELOPED NUMEROUS INVENTIONS, THE GEODESIC DOME. CARBON MOLECULES KNOWN AS FULLERENES. INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION BEGAN WITH THE SUCCESS OF HIS HUGE GEODESIC DOMES DURING THE 1950S. FULLER ALSO INTRODUCED SYNERGETICS, TO REFERENCE THE EMPIRICAL STUDY OF SYSTEMS IN TRANSFORMATION, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON TOTAL SYSTEM BEHAVIOR UNPREDICTED BY THE BEHAVIOR OF ANY ISOLATED COMPONENTS. FULLER WAS FOLLOWED (HISTORICALLY) BY OTHER DESIGNERS AND ARCHITECTS, SUCH AS NORMAN FOSTER AND STEVE BAER. FULLER WAS CONCERNED ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY AND ABOUT HUMAN SURVIVAL UNDER THE EXISTING SOCIO-ECONOMIC SYSTEM. DEFINING WEALTH IN TERMS OF KNOWLEDGE. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

12.414 DOINA PETRUSCA & CONSTANTIN PETCOU

DOINA PETRUSCA & CONSTANTIN PETCOU

FOUNDERS OF ATELIER D’ARCHITECTURE AUTOGÉRÉE, URBAN TACTICS, AAA ACTS AS A PLATFORM FOR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH AND ACTION ON THE CITY AND MUCH OF THEIR WORK IS CARRIED OUT WITH OTHER SPECIALISTS, ARTISTS, RESEARCHERS AND INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS SUCH AS UNIVERSITIES, ARTS ORGANISATIONS AND NGOS, AS WELL AS THE EVENTUAL USERS OF THEIR SPACES. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY 

YOUTUBE BREAKFAST IS AN ONLINE LECTURE PROJECT ON SCIENCE, CULTURE AND ART.

JANE JACOBS

JANE JACOBS AMERICAN-CANADIAN WRITER AND ACTIVIST WITH PRIMARY INTEREST IN COMMUNITIES AND URBAN PLANNING AND DECAY. SHE IS BEST KNOWN FOR THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN CITIES (1961), A POWERFUL CRITIQUE OF THE URBAN RENEWAL POLICIES OF THE 1950S IN THE UNITED STATES. JACOBS IS EQUALLY WELL KNOWN FOR ORGANIZING GRASSROOTS EFFORTS TO BLOCK URBAN-RENEWAL PROJECTS THAT WOULD HAVE DESTROYED LOCAL NEIGHBORHOODS. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

12.412 WANG SHU

WANG SHU CHINESE ARCHITECT BASED IN HANGZHOU, ZHEJIANG PROVINCE. IN 2012 WANG SHU BECAME THE FIRST CHINESE ARCHITECT TO WIN THE PRITZKER PRIZE. WANG SHU CHOSE TO LIVE IN HANGZHOU FOR THE CITY'S NATURAL LANDSCAPES AND ANCIENT TRADITION OF ART. HIS ARCHITECTURE HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS "OPENING NEW HORIZONS WHILE AT THE SAME TIME RESONATES WITH PLACE AND MEMORY". WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

11.410 JOHN SOANE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iteJV283wv4
 

JOHN SOANE. ENGLISH ARCHITECT WHO SPECIALISED IN THE NEO-CLASSICAL STYLE. HIS ARCHITECTURAL WORKS ARE DISTINGUISHED BY THEIR CLEAN LINES, MASSING OF SIMPLE FORM, DECISIVE DETAILING, CAREFUL PROPORTIONS AND SKILFUL USE OF LIGHT SOURCES. THE INFLUENCE OF HIS WORK, COMING AT THE END OF THE GEORGIAN ERA, WAS SWAMPED BY THE REVIVAL STYLES OF THE 19TH CENTURY. HIS BEST-KNOWN WORK WAS THE BANK OF ENGLAND. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

11.406 ZAHA HADID

ZAHA HADID. IRAQI-BRITISH ARCHITECT. SHE WORKED WITH REM KOOLHAAS AND ELIA ZENGHELIS AT THE OFFICE FOR METROPOLITAN ARCHITECTURE, BECOMING A PARTNER IN 1977. IT WAS WITH KOOLHAAS THAT SHE MET THE ENGINEER PETER RICE WHO GAVE HER SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT EARLY ON, AT A TIME WHEN HER WORK SEEMED DIFFICULT TO BUILD. IN 2004 HADID BECAME THE FIRST FEMALE RECIPIENT OF THE PRITZKER IN 2006, HADID WAS HONORED WITH A RETROSPECTIVE SPANNING HER ENTIRE WORK AT THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM IN NEW YORK. IN 2008, SHE RANKED 69TH ON THE FORBES LIST OF "THE WORLD'S 100 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN". WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.