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. ...

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.  

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).