Daniel Libskind : Polish-American

-Son to Holocaust Survivors

-Famous Jewish Museum
-Worked for Richard Meier
-Mesh of Modern Abstract Forms with Traditional Architecture
Richard Meier : American
-Jewish
-Cousin of Peter Eisenmann
-White Structures, inspiration is Lecorbusier
Norman Foster : British
-Futuristic
-Loves Aircrafts
-Foster + Partners
-High-Tech Architecture
Renzo Piano : Italian
-Experimental Lightweight structures and Basic Shelters
-Worked for Louis Kahn
-Piano & Rogers (Richard Rogers)
-Post Modern/High-Tech ~Brutalist
Santiago Calatrava : Spanish
-Futuristic Forms
-structural engineering (second degree)
-respects modern spanish architecture which gets inspiration for organic
forms and the human body.
Rem Koolhaas : Dutch
Jean Nouvel : French
-Originally wanted to pursue arts but parents didn't agree
-Failed an entrance exam, won a competition
-Had good connection with mentors
-Torre Aiges de Barcelona
-(MUST RESEARCH ON HIM MORE)
Frank Gehry : Canadian-American
-Changed his name
-Fish inspiration from Grandmother
-Carpenter Dad
-Horrible Student
-Bilbao Effect
Zaha Hadid : Iraqi-British
-First woman awarded with Pritzker Architecture Prize
-neofuturistic, multi perspective, fragmented geometry
-professor and worked for rem koolhaas
-Issues on stability of design
Cesar Pelli : Argentine American
-Petronas Twin Towers, Malaysia
Walter Gropius : German
-Founder of Bauhaus School
-sergeant -> Lieutenant survived WW1
-Couldn't Draw ; Hired people
-Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Dietrich Marcks
^Fellow empoyees ; firm of petere behrens
-Went out of germany due to hitler
Frank Lloyd Wright : American
-organic architecture
-Prairie School Movement, Usonian homa
-Falling Water
-"Greatest American Architect of all time"
-Mother inspired kid by cathedrals on the walls of his nursery
-Kindergarten, he played with blocks, creating forms
Eero Saarinen
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Michael Graves
Le Corbusier
SOM
Alvar Aalto
Louis Sullivan
Charles & Ray Eames
Ieoh Ming Pei
Philip Johnson
Oscar Niemeyer
Robert VEnturi & Denise Scott Brown
Buckminster Fuller