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This work is an alphabetical list of the most important architects with their best known building.
A lot of them have been left out with grief because we only need one for each letter and we done an effort to have differents nationalities.
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Art Direction: Federico Gonzalez
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Here is the alphabetical list We hope you enjoy it.
Alvar AAlto _ Säynätsalo Town hall - Finland
Luis Barragán _ satellite towers - Mexico city
Santiago Calatrava _ Lyon - Satolas airport railway station - lyon France
Luís Domènech i Montaner _ Antoni Tàpies foundation - Barcelona
Eduardo Souto de Moura _ Paula Rego's House of Stories _ Cascais _ portugal
Norman Foster_ London City Hall _ England
frank Gehry _ Guggenheim bilbao _ Spain
herzog & de meuron _ Beijing National Stadium _ CHina
Arata Isozaki _ Palau Sant Jordi _ barcelona
Philip Johnson _ The Glass House _ New Canaan _ United state
Louis Kahn _ National Parliament of Bangladesh _ Dhaka city
le corbusier _ Villa Savoye _ Poissy, Francia
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe _ barcelona pavilion _ Spain
oscar niemeyer _ National Congress of Brazil, Brasília
Joseph Maria Olbrich _ Secession building, vienna - Austria
César Pelli _ Petronas Twin Tower _ Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Giacomo Quarenghi _ the Smolny Institute _ St. Petersburg, Russia.
Renzo Piano + Richard Rogers _ Pompidou Centre _ Paris, Francia
Álvaro Siza _ Ibere camargo foundation _ porto alegre _ Brazil
kenzo Tange _ Tokyo Olympic Stadium - Japan
Jørn Utzon _ Sydney Opera House _ Australia
William Van Alen _ Chrysler Building _ New York City
frank lloyd wright _ guggenheim new york _ United state
Iannis Xenakis _ Philips pavilion _ Expo '58 in Brussels
Minoru Yamasaki _ World Trade Center
Zaha Hadid_The Pierres Vives building _ Montpellier, France
3 Comments
oblio70says...Eduardo Souto de Moura's "E" and Zaha Hadids "Z" are a bit forced (first names).
Surely one could find proper representations of such letters, such as Peter Eisenman and Peter Zumthor (Prizker Prize recipient)...not to be a d*** about it.
oritteroposays...Which single building would you choose for each of them? Zaha Hadid's Pierres Vives building looks like a futuristic scifi drawing, or an alien spaceship, and is pretty darned cool. In my list that could stay as on as the official H
Eduardo Souto de Moura's "E" and Zaha Hadids "Z" are a bit forced (first names).
Surely one could find proper representations of such letters, such as Peter Eisenman and Peter Zumthor (Prizker Prize recipient)...not to be a d*** about it.
DarkenRahlsays...Exceptionally well done little video. We could spend all day arguing about which architects were worthy and which were not, but this isn't the internet, so we won't...
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