1886-1969 German-American architect Pioneers of modernist architecture Last director of the Bauhaus 『Barcelona Pavilion』『Villa Tugendhat』『Farnsworth House』 【BOOK】 【MOVIE】
William Morris
1834-1896 British textile designer, poet, novelist, socialist and activist the British Arts and Crafts Movement 『Red House』 『Strawberry Thief』
Gottfried Semper
Gottfried Semper 1803-1879 German architect Classicism Neoclassical Eclectic Pictureless 『Dresden Opera House』 『Dresden Museum』 『Museum of Art』
Louis Sullivan
1856-1924 American architect Chicago School AIA Gold Medal 『Auditorium Building』 『Wainwright Building』 『Guaranty Building』
Le Corbusier
1887-1965Swiss-French architect, designer, painterFive Points of ArchitectureFounding member of CIAM『Villa Savoye,』『Unité d’habitation』『Notre Dame du Haut』 【BOOK】 【MOVIE】
Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Karl Friedrich Schinkel 1781-1841 Prussian architect, city planner, and painterNeoclassicalism 『Berlin Old Museum』 『Babelsberg Palace』 『Neue Wache Memorial』
Skogskyrkogården
Skogskyrkogården / Forest CemeteryCompletion: 1940Location: Stockholm, SwedenDesign: Gunnar AsplundWorld Heritage A communal graveyard on the outskirts of Stockholm. There are three chapels and a crematorium in the vast cemetery. Architecture…
Koloman Moser
1868-1918 Austrian artist, designer Vienna Secession Jugendstil Wiener Werkstätte 『Stoclet Palace』 『Steinhof Church』
Oskar Kokoschka
1886-1980 Austrian artist, poet, playwright and teacher ExpressionismErasmus Prize 『The Bride of the Wind』 『Adolf Loos』
Mart Stam
1899-1986 Dutch architect, urban planner, furniture designer New Objectivity, magazine ABC, Bauhaus『Weissenhof Estate』 『the Van Nelle Factory』 『S-33 steel-tubing cantilever chair』
Imperial Hotel
Imperial HotelCompletion: 1923 Place: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo / Inuyama City, Aichi Design: Frank Lloyd Wright A hotel designed by three great masters of modern architecture. It is characterized by scratch tiles, terracotta and Otani stone decorations. ‥Although…
Ito Chuta
1867-1954Japanese architect, architectural historian, criticProfessor of architecture at the Imperial UniversityLeading proponent of the Imperial Crown style of architecture『Meiji Jingū』『Gion Kaku』『Tsukiji Hongan-ji』
Piet Mondrian
1872-1944Dutch painter, theoreticianPioneer of 20th-century abstract artContributor to the De Stijl『Gray Tree』『Composition』『Broadway Boogie Woogie』
Itsukushima Shrine
Itsukushima shrineCompletion 1241/1556/1571/1680/1875Place: Itsukushima / Miyajima, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima, Japan world Heritage “Aki no Miyajima”, one of the three best views in Japan.The head office of Itsukushima Shrine, which is located…
Tatsuno Kingo
1854-1919Japanese architectFormer dean of Architecture Department at Tokyo Imperial University『Tokyo Station』『the Bank of Japan building』『Nara Hotel』
Hannes Meyer
Hannes Meyer 1889-1954 Swiss architect Bauhaus 2nd Principal, CIAM Far East Department Director Soviet Construction Academy 『All-German Trade Union Union School』