Architects have been and will remain at the forefront of shaping the built environment around us. As experienced professionals in engineering, design and construction, architects use their creativity to simplify the complex process of development and building a socially and economically sustainable cities and communities. Here are some world-renowned architects for their unique creative skills, vision and contributions are known.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright andone of the most famous architects in America. Although he had no formal training in architecture, he believed that his work as a laborer in Wisconsin made him very enlightening and helped to develop skills in space. Abandoned after studying engineering at the University of Wisconsin for a few semesters at the age of 15 years to work with JL Silsbee and Louis Sullivan's apprentice. After working with them for six years, Wright opened his own studio. During his 70 year career, Wright designed in 1141Buildings, including houses, offices, churches, schools, libraries, bridges and museums. One of his most important contributions, the Prairie House style of architecture. He experimented with obtuse angles and environments, the creation of structures of unusual form, of which one example is the spiral Guggenheim Museum (1943-49). He also developed a range of affordable housing that called Usonian. Although he earned recognition as one of the early 1900s, the modern architect has become popularRecipient of the American Institute of Architects in 1949.
Some of his most famous projects were:
Frederick C. Robie House 1909
Unity Temple 1906
Fallingwater 1936
Johnson Wax Administration Building 1936
IM Pei
IM Pei, one of the most famous modern architects, was born in Canton, China in 1917. Pei was born in Shanghai in 1935, but on to the United States, architecture and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute studyof Technology and Harvard University. He was appointed Director of Architecture at the real estate development company, Webb & Knapp in 1948 and founded his own company in 1958.
In the last fifty years, more than fifty IM Pei building in the world, including industrial buildings, museums and established low-income households. Concerened more about the role which the theory is the characteristic style by IM Pei, the use of large, abstract geometric shapes and sharpDrawings. The glass-coated structures were of the modernist movement of high-tech birth.
During his career, Pei and his firm has won numerous awards for architecture. Won the prestigious Pritzker Prize 1983rd
Some of his most important buildings are:
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University
Bank of China Tower
John Hancock Tower
Pyramid of the Louvre
National Gallery
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier, born at the end of the 19th Century, aPioneer of modern architecture. He founded what is commonly known as the International Style and the Bauhaus. The essence of modern architecture as described by him in his 5-point theory, the later the guiding principle for many of his designs.
Free-standing pillars
Open floor plan independent media
Vertical face, free from the supports
Long horizontal sliding window
Hanging Gardens
While the earlier buildingsLe Corbusier as a pure prisms were smooth, white concrete and glass structures elevated above the ground, his drawings, then used raw, severe forms of stone, concrete, plaster and glass. He was a visionary who anticipated not only the role of the car, but stipulates that the cities would be large apartment buildings with park-like settings. Le Corbusier, as a famous architect was also for his innovations in urban planning and solutions for low-income housing known. Moreover, he believed,Stark building the clean, brightly designed, contribute healthy cities. Le Corbusier's dreams of an urban oasis that properly Unité d'Habitation, or led the "Radiant City" in Marseilles, France, which was built to take on business, conference facilities and accommodation for 1600 people in the 17-storey building. During his long life, Le Corbusier designed buildings in Europe, India and Russia. Le Corbusier designed a building in the United States and ain South America.
His most famous buildings are:
Palace for the League of Nations, Geneva 1927
Villa Savoye, Poissy, France 1929
Swiss Building, Cité Universitaire, Paris 1931
The secretariat at the United Nations, New York 1952
Buckminister R. Fuller
Born in poverty and failure, Buckheimer Fuller had suicidal thoughts before his life changed course and became a famous architect known for its unique architectural stylesdominated the 20th Century. He believed that his life was an experiment and that belonged to the universe. At the age of 32 years, started on a journey to find out what could a poor, unknown individual actually provide for humanity. He looked for ways to do more with less, that all people could be fed and a roof over their heads.
Although he never received a degree in architecture, was a modern architect and engineer who designed the revolutionaryStructures. His famous Dymaxion house was a prefabricated, pole supported housing. His car was a streamlined Dymaxion car, three wheels with the engine in the back, while his Dymaxion Air-Ocean map shows a spherical world as a flat surface without visible distortion. However, Fuller's greatest contribution may be the geodesic dome - a strong, ball-like structure on the basis of the theories of "energetic-synergetic geometry''which has developed during the Second World War. Efficient and economicalThe geodesic dome was widely hailed as a possible solution to the housing world.
Although his popularity and the Dymaxion car was not his design for the geodesic dome is achieved rarely used, Fuller has his mark in the fields of architecture, mathematics, philosophy, religion, urban planning and design.
Among his most important works:
1932: The Dymaxion house product notebook
1934: The Dymaxion Car
1938: Nine Chains to the Moon
1949: Development ofGeodesic Dome
1967: U.S. Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal, Canada
1969: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
1970: Approaching the benign environment
Louis Sullivan
Louis Sullivan is well known, America's first and original contemporary architects, as he believed in creating their own designs and shapes, as an imitation of the great historical styles. The only design element Sullivan was that he was able to create aesthetic unity in buildings that were high, rather thantypical range of development times over. Often used in masonry with drawings of terracotta, are interwoven with the life and crunchy leaves combined with geometric forms. Louis Sullivan believes that the outside of an office building to reflect its internal structure and functions should be. Clothing should be as natural as possible and used only when necessary. Rejected the classical references and arches everywhere.
Some of his most important buildings are
WainwrightBuilding
National Farmers'Bank (Sullivan's Arch ")
The Bradley House
