Master architects rarely get the celebrity and respect that other artists like painters receive. This is despite the fact that their work has a much greater effect on people’s lives in the long term. This is because buildings protect and shelter people throughout their lives for play, work and home. In fact, architecture is the art that we live in. Anyone who has been in a building designed by a famous architect knows all too well that they make civilization beautiful.
Who are some famous architects? The following is a list:
Antoni Gaudi
This architect spent his whole career in Barcelona, this is where all his projects were constructed. The most famous work of Antoni is an 1883 cathedral called La Sagrada Familia that is still undergoing construction to this very day. He used a unique style, which was an ornate mix of Victorian, Moorish, Gothic and Baroque elements. This popularly featured beautiful ornamental tile-work. It also drew up certain forms that can be found in nature, this influence is exhibited in some tree-like columns that firmly hold the church’s interior. Other famous creations of Gaudi are the Casa Milla block apartments that derive their inspiration from the multi-peaked Montserrat mountain.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank is a 20th century architect with Wisconsin roots and a Midwestern upbringing. He is known for creating the Prairie House style by putting emphasis on horizontal planes. The Falling Water is his most popular building that features some stacked rectangular balconies floating above the natural waterfall that is seamlessly incorporated to the house. Frank later embraced curvilinear elements that can be seen in the famous Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Mies Van der Rohe
This is a German architect who always believed in less is more. He is known for stripping architecture to its elemental geometric forms thus paving the path to minimalism. Mies Van der Rohe banished every trace of ornamentation by utilizing innate qualities of materials like plate glass and steel to define the appearance of his buildings. All his designs put emphasis on efficiency and rationalism as the way to beauty. This approach is exemplified by the famous Barcelona Pavilion that was built to house for housing the exhibit of Germany for the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona. Here, there is liberal use of travertine, red onyx and marble. The Seagram Tower found in New York is another masterpiece by Mies.
Philip Johnson
He is the founding director of the MoMA’s Department of Architecture and had a big impact on the field. In this way, he assisted in shaping architectural trends from the year 1935 onward. Philip is famous for refining the ideas of others than for inventing his own. However, this did not prevent his work from achieving iconic status in a number of cases. Philip Johnson’s house built in 1949, a transparent box that is set among grounds exquisitely landscaped is a good example. It effectively dissolves the boundaries that lie between the outside and the inside, private and public. It expansively utilizes plate glass to mimic the luxury developments of today. The Chippendale building for AT&T is also part of his famous projects.
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