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Zaha Hadid Architects. Foster + Partners. VSBA : Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Architects and Planners. Richard Meier & Partners Architects LLP. James Stirling (architect) Sir James Frazer Stirling (22 April 1926 – 25 June 1992) was a British architect.

James Stirling (architect)

Among critics and architects alike he is generally acknowledged to be one of the most important and influential architects of the second half of the 20th century. His career began as one of a number of young architects who, from the 1950s onwards, questioned and subverted the compositional and theoretical precepts of the first Modern Movement. Stirling's development of an agitated, mannered reinterpretation of those precepts – much influenced by his friend and teacher, the important architectural theorist and urbanist Colin Rowe – introduced an eclectic spirit that allowed him to plunder the whole sweep of architectural history as a source of compositional inspiration, from ancient Rome and the Baroque, to the many manifestations of the modern period, from Frank Lloyd Wright to Alvar Aalto.

Stirling worked in partnership with James Gowan from 1956 to 1963, then with Michael Wilford from 1971 until 1992. Gehry Partners, LLP. Frank Lloyd Wright. Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. Photographs by Sanghyun Lee 이상현. HORTA MUSEUM. Horta naît le 6 janvier à Gand.

HORTA MUSEUM

Son père est cordonnier. S'inscrit à la section d'architecture de l'Académie des Beaux-Arts de Gand. Il continue à fréquenter l'Athénée Royal de Gand, de 1874 à 1877. Part à Paris où il entre dans l'atelier d'un architecte décorateur: Jules Debuysson. «Mon séjour à Paris, mes promenades, la visite des monuments et des musées avaient ouvertes toutes grandes les portes de mon coeur d'artiste.

Le père d'Horta meurt le 13 juin: le jeune homme rentre en Belgique. Premier mariage et déménagement à Bruxelles. Remporte le premier prix Godecharle d'architecture avec un projet de Parlement. Construit trois maisons, rue des Douze Chambres à Gand. Remporte le concours triennal organisé par l'Académie des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles pour ses anciens étudiants, avec un projet de Musée d'Histoire naturelle. Se rend à Paris pour visiter l'exposition universelle (Tour Eiffel, Galerie des Machines). Naissance de Simone Horta.

Hôtel Aubecq, 520 avenue Louise à Bruxelles. Alvar Aalto : architect biography. Alvar Aalto Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) is considered a modern architect, yet his work exhibits a carefully crafted balance of intricate and complex forms, spaces, and elements, and reveals a traditionalism rooted in the cultural heritage and physical environment of Finland.

Alvar Aalto : architect biography

Over the course of his 50-year career, Alvar Aalto, unlike a number of his contemporaries, did not rely on modernism's fondness for industrialized processes as a compositional technique, but forged an architecture influenced by a broad spectrum of concerns. Alvar Aalto 's is an architecture that manifests an understanding of the psychological needs of modern society, the particular qualities of the Finnish environment, and the historical, technical, and cultural traditions of Scandinavian architecture. Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto was born in the Ostro-Bothnian village of Kourtane in 1898. The family soon moved to Alajarvi, where his mother, Selma Hackstedt Aalto, died in 1903. RIBA.