Philip Johnson. Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an influential[1] American architect.
He is especially known for his postmodern work since the 1980s. In 1930, he founded the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In 1978 he was awarded an American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and in 1979 the first Pritzker Architecture Prize.[2] He was a student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Johnson was gay, and has been called "the best-known openly gay architect in America.
" In 1961, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member and became a full Academician in 1963. Johnson died in his sleep while at his Glass House retreat in 2005. Early life[edit] Johnson was born in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1928 Johnson met with architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who was at the time designing the German Pavilion for the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition. Zaha Hadid. BMW Central Building, Leipzig, Germany The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at 547 East Circle Drive, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan USA.
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid, DBE (Arabic: زها حديد Zahā Ḥadīd; born 31 October 1950) is an Iraqi-British architect. She received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004—the first woman to do so—and the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011. Her buildings are distinctively neofuturistic, characterized by the "powerful, curving forms of her elongated structures"[1] with "multiple perspective points and fragmented geometry to evoke the chaos of modern life".[2] She is currently professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in Austria. Early life and education[edit] Zaha Hadid was born on 31 October 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq. Teaching[edit] Dame Zaha Hadid has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she was the Kenzo Tange Professorship and the Sullivan Chair at the University of Illinois at Chicago's School of Architecture.
Peter Eisenman. Peter Eisenman (born 1932) is an American architect.
Biography[edit] Early life[edit] Career[edit] He first rose to prominence as a member of the New York Five (also known as the Whites, as opposed to the Grays of Yale: Robert A.M. Stern, Charles Moore, etc.), five architects (Eisenman, Charles Gwathmey, John Hejduk, Richard Meier, and Michael Graves) some of whose work was presented at a CASE Studies conference in 1967.
He currently teaches theory seminars and advanced design studios at the Yale School of Architecture.[2] He is Professor Emeritus at the Cooper Union School of Architecture.[3] Previously, he taught at the University of Cambridge, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Ohio State University. His professional work is often referred to as formalist, deconstructive, late avant-garde, late or high modernist, etc. His House VI, designed for clients Richard and Suzanne Frank in the mid 1970s, confounds expectations of structure and function. Rem Koolhaas. Remment Lucas "Rem" Koolhaas (/ˈrɛm ˈkɔːlhɑːs/; born 17 November 1944) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.
Koolhaas studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Koolhaas is the founding partner of OMA, and of its research-oriented counterpart AMO based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In 2005, he co-founded Volume Magazine together with Mark Wigley and Ole Bouman. Early life and career[edit] His father strongly supported the Indonesian cause for autonomy from the colonial Dutch in his writing. In 1969, Koolhaas co-wrote The White Slave, a Dutch film noir, and later wrote an unproduced script for American soft-porn king Russ Meyer.[7] Theoretical position[edit] Delirious New York[edit] Delirious New York (a book) set the pace for Koolhaas's career.
S,M,L,XL[edit] Project on the city[edit]