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 fro...

  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. ...

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 lea...