considered the first industrial designer in history

he designed the AEG Turbine Factory

"Our age has been seized by a haste that leaves no time for absorption in details"

he worked on the design for the 1926 Sesquicentennial Exposition

Along with Dominique Berninger, founded the Architectural Research Group, espousing among others, populist-social agenda and new aesthetics of the European avant-gardes

his style tends to be monumental and monolithic; his heavy buildings do not hide their weight, their materials, or the way they are assembled and are considered as monumental beyond modernism

considered as Louis Kahn's magnum opus

his early projects were constructed with a broad pallete of materials including corrugated iron, plaster, stainless steel and fibre glass as a reaction to much of the bland "Modern" architecture of the period

he is partly influenced by the geometric massing of the Japanese Metabolists

combined all disparate elements into a highly eclectic and personal style

his works in early 70s are characterized by developing a distinctive and highly personal design approach based on repetition of small scale elements and complex massing

he is criticized by designing what detractors are saying are "cartoon houses" as they were more about charm and not practicality

"In a house, you should get a surprise every time you turn a corner and look up"

best known projects are the Telecom Towers, Civic Square and Wellington Library, Jade Stadium in Christchurch and work on the design of the Bangkok rapid transport system

published more than 30 books, inventing and popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", ephemeralization, and synergetics; he also developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, the best known of which is the "Geodesic Dome"

In the 1930s, he designed and built prototypes of what he hoped would be safer, aerodynamic car, which he called the "Dymaxion"

he is an American architect and real estate developer widely known for popularizing hotels and office buildings with multi-storied interior atriums

architect of the Embarcadero Center in San Francisco

architect of the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco

He pioneered in the new concept of landscape garden designed known as "Cosmic Garden" - a garden based on natural and scientific processes whose goal is to celebrate nature, but incorporating elements from modern sciences into the design into contemporary setting.

realized his concept of "Cosmic Garden"

synonymous with his writings on Post-modernism in architecture as he published his though on Post-modernism in the "Language of Post-Modern Architecture"

"Post modern architecture focuses on forms derived from the mind, body and nature"

created such urban projects as the Mile High Center (1955) in Denver, Colorado, the Hyde Park Redevelopment (1959) in Chicago, and the Place Ville-Marie (1965) in Montreal.

In general, his designs represent an extension of and elaboration on the rectangular forms and irregular silhouettes of the prevailing International Style.

He was noted for his bold and skillful arrangements of groups of geometric shapes and for his dramatic use of richly contrasted materials, spaces, and surfaces.

designed the Louvre Pyramid

architect of the Museum of Islamic Art, a museum built on an island off an artificial projecting peninsula near the traditional dhow harbor.

"Post modern architecture focuses on forms derived from the mind, body and nature"