Architect of The Day

His approach to architecture lies in its balance between urban scope and architectural scale Oriol Bohigas Oriol Bohigas is a world famous Catalan architect, urban planner. He has worked in the city of Barcelona for most of his career. Bohigas frequently publishes articles in media and is an author of considerable number of books.  He is one of the personalities interviewed in the documentary  Europa Ciudad  (Europe City), was President of the Jury of the European Prize for Urban Public Space in the  2000  and  2004  awards. Also Bohigas was selected  President of the Jury of the European Prize for Urban Public Space in the  2000  and  2004  awards. The main key to his approach to architecture and urban planning lies in its balance between urban scope and architectural scale. Museu Del Disseny, Barcelona In the 1960's Barcelona was a city with industrial spirit and a vocational call for services from which was born  new economic boom with a fizz that was needed t

  While he was logical in so many things in his ideas about architecture, he was really a romantic Eduardo Catalano Argentinian architect Eduardo Catalano was an inventive architect and one the modern architecture most notable personalities. Perhaps, he was too ahead of the time with his works and imagination. Always critical Frank Lloyd Wright was impressed by the radical design of the house Catalano had designed for himself in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 1956 it won ‘House and Home’ magazine's ‘House of Decade’ award and Frank Lloyd Wright was so impressed, that he personally wrote a letter to US monthly to praise the project as “so imaginatively and skillfully treated ...”. Catalano sought harmony in science, technology and the visual arts and that infuenced  all of his works. He also had very strong opinions, which would get him into trouble. He didn’t care who you were, a client or otherwise - he would tell you what he thought. Raleigh House, North C

Architect who managed to build Modernism to empower people Berthold Lubetkin Berthold Lubetkin was born in Tbilisi, Georgia and spent his childhood in Russia. This man is considered one of most noted architects in Post War British architecture.  He is believed to have more listed buildings to his credit than any other 20th century architect in Great Britain. Berthold Lubetkin While was studying art in Moscow and Leningrad, as a teenager he witnessed Bolshevik revolution of 1917. This left a huge impact on his personality and creativity for the rest of his life. As many other creative minds of that time, he was consumed by Constructivism and was taking parts in street festivals. In 1920s he studied in Berlin, Warsaw and Paris. Bevin Court Staircase, London By the late 1920s, Modernism had become an important movement in Europe. Betrhold Lubetkin moved to London. But in England, Modernism had yet to arrive and Lubetkin was ready to be it's pioneer and lead Mod

Architecture is Too Important to Leave to the Architects Giancarlo De Carlo   . He was an Italian architect who was one of architectural thinkers of  his time. He was a part of generation that entered architecture in a postwar Italian democracy that shaped his philosophy about life and architecture.   University Colleges of Urbino, Italy   The University Colleges are one of the most famous and significant projects of Giancarlo De Carlo. Between 1962 and 1983, he built a huge settlement to accommodate about 1100 students not far from the city, center of the university life. There are many reasons that made the University Colleges a veritable icon of the 20th Century, and Giancarlo was one of the reasons. University Colleges of Urbino, Italy He had a long career as an architect, writer and a teacher. De Carlo was a self-taught and trained as an architect from 1942 to 1949. Giancarlo De Carlo was one of the founding members of Team X, a group of architects

One of the pillars in the Latin-American architecture - Eladio Dieste Eladio Dieste Eladio Dieste was born in, a town in northern Uruguay, Artigas. He studied at the University of the Republic, Montevideo, graduating in 1943. His first years of work were for the Ministry of Public Works.With Eugenio Montañez he founded the firm  “Dieste & Montañez,S.A. ”, in 1956. The firm still exists today, managed by one of Dieste´s sons, Eduardo Dieste.    Municipal Bus Terminal, for the city of Salto, Uruguay His work is based on achieving structural efficiency by using ceramic tiles laminated together and combined as thin shell vaults, as wide-curved roof spans or as sinuous walls. These structures do not require the use of ribs and beams and are far less expensive than reinforced concrete.      Christo Obrero Church, Atlantida, Uruguay, 1958 Wall structures If you want to know more,  read here!

Master of space, material and natural light - Stephen Holl Steven Holl    He is a New York-based American architect and watercolorist. Holl graduated from the University of Washington and pursued architecture studies in Rome in 1970, but later moved to New York. For 10 years Holl slept in his office on a plywood shelf above the entry and showered at the nearby YMCA. University of Iowa Visual Arts Building Holls architectural philosophy is centred on human experience, maternity and engagement with the site and context. His inspiration comes from phenomological ideas of philosopher Maurice Marleau-Ponty and architect theorist Juhani Pallasmaa.    Horizontal Skyscraper, Shenzhen, China His later work concentrated on urban-scale mixed residential and commercial projects in China, notably the Linked Hybrid, a building complex containing apartments, hotels, schools, and restaurants in Beijing, and the Vanke Centre, a “horizontal skyscraper” in Shenzhen.    Li

Creative mind of Swedish Design - Nils  Nisse  Strinning Nisse Strinning in front of String system This man is the creator of minimalist and cost-effective String Bookshelf System and versatile designs in plastic. Strinning in collaboration with his wife Kasja, has designed variety of objects like Vispi Bowl (1951), Kam Bookshelf (1968). Globally awarded String Bookshelf was included into the Swedish National Museum’s design collections in 1979 Swedish architect, Nils Strinning was among a group of mid-twentieth century designers that helped build the foundations of what is now widely termed Scandinavian Design. Born in Sweden in 1917, he studied architecture in Stockholm from 1940-47 before designing the iconic String shelf system.  

The architect who made his name by building one of the London's most famous landmarks Sir John Wolfe Barry John Wolfe-Barry, the youngest son of architect Sir Charles Barry, added ‘Wolfe’ to his inherited name in 1898. He was educated at Glenalmond and King’s College London, and was a pupil of civil engineer Sir John Hawkshaw. Horace Jones was appointed architect, and knighted, but died in 1886. Wolfe-Barry was well-established with experience of building bridges across Thames, railways and docks. He then took control of Tower Bridge project and that’s what cemented Wolfe-Barry’s name in to history. Tower Bridge, London C onstruction was started in 1886 and it took 8 years to finish this bascule and suspension bridge. Five companies and 432 workers worked on it. It has 70,000 tons of concrete in foundations and some 10,000 tons of steel. His other projects include: Cannon Street Railway Bridge (aka the Alexandra Bridge) (1866), Blackfriars Railway Bridge (

Polish architect, Olympic fencer and artist Wojciech Zabłocki Zabłocki is the designer of several sports buildings including The Józef Piłsudski Academy of Physical Education in Warsaw and a sports complex in Konin. He also co-designed the Silesian Insurgents Monument in Katowice in 1967.He is a founding member of the Art of the Olympians.    Silesian Insurgents Monument Architect Kenzō Tange,the winner of the 1987 Pritzker Prize for architecture, is credited as as architect for this 1 billion project, but he resigned from the project before the construction of the palace started. Despite the flaws of this enormous palace it is an impressive work of architecture. Presidential Palace is the residence for the President of Syria, located in Damascus, in the West of the city. Total palace premise covers 510,000 square meters and the main building – 31,5000 square meters. It was built over 5 years from 1985 - 1990.   Presidential Palace , Damascus Hafez al-As

One of most prolific and skilled architects in the Gilded Age America George Oakley Totten Jr.     He had many private clients who were interested in constructing large, elegant mansions in the styles he was designing on 16th Street (Meridian Hill). He also designed many private city and country dwellings in Washington, including a group of houses in the 2600 block of 16th Street, N.W., representing several styles of architecture. He also designed homes in Vermont and New Jersey. He was architect for a number of government buildings including the post office at Waterbury, Connecticut and the $3 million post office and federal court building at Newark, New Jersey, that opened in 1934. George Oakley Totten Jr. house

American dystophian architect John Portman The visionary neofuturistic architect who developed dytophian architecture we have seen in Hollywood’s most popular movies. Portman's buildings has his signature mix of modernism and brutalism, highlighted by massive atriums and long, glassy elevators and a feeling of future. Portman's buildings has appeared in dozens of movies over the last decades: Interstellar (2014), The Hunger Games, Divergent (2014), Mission Impossible III  (2006), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997).