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Yamasaki was one of the most prominent architects of the 20th century. He and fellow architect Edward Durell Stone are generally considered to be the two master practitioners of "New Formalism". [5] [6] During his three-decade career, he and his firm designed over 250 buildings. [7] His firm, Yamasaki & Associates, closed on December 31, 2009. [8]
Roland Terry (June 2, 1917 - June 8, 2006) was a Pacific Northwest architect from the 1950s to the 1990s. He was a prime contributor to the regional approach to Modern architecture created in the Northwest in the post-World War II era. Terry was born in Seattle and raised in Seattle and Kansas.
Image credits: Downtown_Duty3437 The APA states that city living is linked to worse air pollution, increased noise, crime, social inequality, stress from sensory overload, and a lack of open space.
Several architects occur in worldwide mythology, including Daedalus, builder of the Labyrinth, in Greek myth. In the Bible, Nimrod is considered the creator of the Tower of Babel, and King Solomon built Solomon's Temple with the assistance of the architect Hiram. In Hinduism, the palaces of the gods were built by the architect and artisan ...
The New York Five was a group of architects based in New York City whose work was featured in the 1972 book Five Architects. [1] The architects, Peter Eisenman , Michael Graves , Charles Gwathmey , John Hejduk , and Richard Meier , are also often referred to as "the Whites". [ 2 ]
A successful Chicago architect, he was selected as Director of Works for the 1892–93 World's Columbian Exposition, colloquially referred to as "The White City". He had prominent roles in the creation of master plans for the development of a number of cities, including the Plan of Chicago , and plans for Manila , Baguio and downtown Washington ...
Chloethiel Woodard Smith, FAIA (February 2, 1910 – December 30, 1992) was an American modernist architect and urban planner whose career was centered in Washington, D.C. . She was the sixth woman inaugurated into the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows and at the peak of her practice led the country's largest woman-owned architecture f
Sir David Frank Adjaye (born 22 September 1966) is a Ghanaian-British [1] architect who has designed many notable buildings around the world, including the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.. Adjaye was knighted in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to architecture.