Master Architects

He was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. He believed in designing in harmony with humanity and the environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. He played a key role in the architectural movements of the twentieth century, influencing architects worldwide through his works and hundreds of apprentices in his Taliesin Fellowship.

• Walter Gropius

• Frank Lloyd Wright

• Cass Gilbert

• Louis Sullivan

He was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930. His career spanned five decades, and he designed buildings in Europe, Japan, India, and North and South America.

• Adolf Loos

• Auguste Perret

• Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris

• Jacques Herzog

He was a Finnish architect and designer. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware, as well as sculptures and paintings. He never regarded himself as an artist, seeing painting and sculpture as "branches of the tree whose trunk is architecture." The span of his career, from the 1920s to the 1970s, is reflected in the styles of his work, ranging from Nordic Classicism of the early work, to a rational International Style Modernism during the 1930s to a more organic modernist style from the 1940s onwards.

• Alvar Aalto

• Eero Saarinen

• Eilel Saarinen

• Gunnar Aspland

He was a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer and architect, who initiated important structural systems for skyscrapers. Considered the "father of tubular designs" for high-rises. He also a pioneer in computer-aided design (CAD). He was the designer of the Sears Tower, since renamed Willis Tower, the tallest building in the world from 1973 until 1998 and the 100-story John Hancock Center. He has been called the "Einstein of structural engineering" and the "Greatest Structural Engineer of the 20th Century" for his innovative use of structural systems that remain fundamental to modern skyscraper design and construction.

• Skidmore

• Louis Kahn

• Bruce John Graham

• Fazlur Rahman Khan

He was a leading German architect, graphic and industrial designer, best known for his early pioneering AEG Turbine Hall in Berlin in 1909. He had a long career, designing objects, typefaces, and important buildings in a range of styles from the 1900s to the 1930s. He was a foundation member of the German Werkbund in 1907, when he also began designing for AEG, pioneered corporate design, graphic design, producing typefaces, objects, and buildings for the company. In the next few years, he became a successful architect, a leader of the rationalist / classical German Reform Movement of the 1910s. After WW1 he turned to Brick Expressionism, designing the remarkable Hoechst Administration Building outside Frankfurt, and from the mid 1920s increasingly to New Objectivity. He was also an educator, heading the architecture school at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1922 to 1936.

• Maria Ludwig Michael Mies

• Peter Behrens

• Walter Gropius

• Le Corbusier

Dictum of Famous Architect: "I believe that people make natural association with forms, color and composition of elements while decoration and detailing help communicate with a building's purpose."

• Walter Grop

• Michael Graves

• Le Corbusier

• Auguste Perette

"The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! The artist is a heightened manifestation of the craftsman. Let us form a new guild of craftsmen without the class divisions that set out to raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists. Let us together create the new building of the future which will be all in one: architecture and sculpture and painting'; ·is attributed to?

• Walter Gropius

• Peter Behrens

• Mies van der Rohe

• Le Corbusier

The Iconic term "Maximum simplicity" is attributed to?

• Frank Lloyd Wright

• Marcel Breuer

• Mies van der Rohe

• Le Corbusier

"The Structure must be well oriented"

• Juan Nakpil

• Cesar Concio

• Francisco Mañosa

• Mies van der Rohe

“ORNAMENT is a crime and all ornamentation must be rejected.”

• Auguste Perrette

• Adolf Loos

• Otto Wagner

• Gunnar Asplund