Architecture Space

Adolf Loos 

Adolf Loos (1870-1933) ranks as one of the most important pioneers of the modern movement in architecture. Ironically, his influence was based largely on a few interior designs and a body of controversial essays. Adolf Loos’s buildings were rigorous examples of austere beauty, ranging from conventional country cottages to planar compositions for See more

Albert Kahn 

Albert Kahn was born in March 21, 1869 in Rhaunen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany and died on December 8, 1942 in Detroit, Michigan. He was the foremost American industrial architect of his day. He is sometimes called, the architect of Detroit See more 

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 traditionalism rooted in the cultural heritage and physical environment of Finland. 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.See more

Alvaro Siza 

 “The architecture of Álvaro Siza is a joy to the senses and uplifts the spirit. Each line and curve is placed with skill and sureness,” the jury of the Pritzker Architecture Prize declared in 1992, singling out Portugal’s most celebrated architect to receive architecture’s most coveted award. During more than four decades, Álvaro Joaquim Melo Siza Vieira has earned the respect of his peers worldwide for the work that reflects the “heroic spirit of modern architecture”. See more

 Antonio Gaudi 

The son of Francesc Gaudí i Serra, a boilermaker, and Antonia Cornet i Bertran, Antoni Plàcid Guillem Gaudí i Cornet, was born on a hot 25th of June 1852 in Reus (Tarragona). Gaudí spent his childhood between Reus, where his parents had their business, and the countryside, in a small cottage owned by his mother known as Mas de la Calderera – the Boilermaker’s house – as his mother’s family had also been involved in that craft. Frequent contact with nature may have been one of the factors that stimulated two of the abilities which were to become crucial in the development of his work: the observation and meticulous analysis of the natural world. See more