Tadao Ando

Tadao Ando

Tadao Ando 1941- Japanese architect    One of the world’s most active Japanese architects, known for his style of exposed concrete and the use of geometric shapes. He traveled around the world…

Hannes Meyer

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』 

Sone Tatsuzo

Sone Tatsuzo

Sone Tatsuzo 1853-1937 Japanese architect 1st graduate student of Department of Architecture, Office building design in Marunouchi, Tokyo『Mitsubishi Ichigokan』 『Nagasaki Shipyard』 『Keio University Library』 『Former Kagoshima Prefectural Office』

Katayama Tokuma

Katayama Tokuma

Katayama Tokuma 1854-1917 Japanese architect the Imperial College of Engineering, Assistant for Josiah Conder『Akasaka Palace / State Guest House』 『Tokyo National Museum Hyokeikan』 『Nara National Museum Main Building”

Gottfried Semper

Gottfried Semper

Gottfried Semper 1803-1879 German architect Classicism Neoclassical Eclectic Pictureless 『Dresden Opera House』 『Dresden Museum』 『Museum of Art』 

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Karl Friedrich Schinkel 1781-1841 Prussian architect, city planner, and painterNeoclassicalism 『Berlin Old Museum』 『Babelsberg Palace』 『Neue Wache Memorial』 

Peter Behrens

Peter Behrens

1868-1940 German architect and industrial designer  German Werkbund Munich Secession 『Behrens’ house』 『AEG Turbine Factory』 『Hoechst Administration Building』

Hermann Muthesius

Hermann Muthesius

1861-1927 German architect, author and diplomat Arts and Crafts movement Deutscher Werkbund 『Bernhard house』 『Cramer house』

Henry van de Velde

Henry van de Velde

1863-1957 Belgian painter, architect, interior designer, and art theorist Art Nouveau German Jugendstil Bauhaus 『Van-de-Velde-Building』 『Kröller-Müller Museum』

Bruno Taut

Bruno Taut

1880-1938 German architect, urban planner and author Deutscher Werkbund 『Glass Pavilion』 『Großsiedlung Britz』

Gunnar Asplund

Gunnar Asplund

1885-1940 Swedish architect  Nordic Classicism 『Stockholm Public Library』 『Skogskyrkogården』

Josef Gočár

Josef Gočár

1880-1945 Czech architect Czech Cubism, Czech Rondocubis 『House of the Black Madonna』 『Czechoslovak Legion Bank』

Mart Stam

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』 

William Morris

William Morris

1834-1896 British textile designer, poet, novelist, socialist and activist the British Arts and Crafts Movement  『Red House』 『Strawberry Thief』 

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

1868-1928 Scottish architect, designer and artist Symbolism, Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, Glasgow Style『Glasgow School of Art』 『The Willow Tearooms』 『Hill House』

Antoni Gaudí

Antoni Gaudí

1852-1926 Catalan architect  Catalan Modernism 『Sagrada Família』 『Park Güell』 『Casa Milà』 『Casa Batlló』