Architects

1. Frank Gehny

Gehry’s best-known works include the titanium-covered Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; MIT Stata Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles; Experience Music Project in Seattle; Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis; Dancing House in Prague; theVitra Design Museum and MARTa Museum in Germany; the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto; the Cinémathèque française in Paris; and 8 Spruce Street inNew York City. But it was his private residence in Santa Monica, California, which jump-started his career, lifting it from the status of “paper architecture” – a phenomenon that many famous architects have experienced in their formative decades through experimentation almost exclusively on paper before receiving their first major commission in later years. Gehry is also the designer of the future Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial.

“the most important architect of our age”-Vanity Fair 2010

2. William Van Alen

Alen was an American architect, best known as the architect in charge of designing New York City’s Chrysler Building.

3. Richmond Harold Shreve

Shreve was a renowned Canadian architect. His company Shreve, Lamb and Harmon led the construction of the Empire State Building as well as several Cornell University buildings. Shreve was also the lead architect for the landmark 1937 Williamsburg Houses housing development in Brooklyn. Shreve attended Cornell University, taught there from 1902 to 1906, and was a member of the Sphinx Head Society. He was president of the American Institute of Architects from 1941 through 1943, and was profiled in the book The 100 Most Notable Cornellians.

4. William Frederick lamb

Lamb was the principal designer of the Empire State Building. Lamb was born in Brooklyn and studied at William College, Columbia University’s School of Architecture and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He joined the firm of Carrere & Hastings in 1911. In 1920 the firm changed its name to Carrère and Hastings Shreve & Lamb and, in 1925, to Shreve & Lamb, and in 1929 to Shreve, Lamb and Harmon. The firm also designed 521 Fifth Avenue, the Forbes Magazine Building, the Standard Oil Building, the Bankers Trust Building and worked with H. Craig Severence on 40 Wall Street in New York.

5. Arthur Loomis Harmon

Harmon was an American architect. He is most famous as the design partner of the firm Shreve, Lamb and Harmon. With the firm he designed many landmarks that still stand today. Among them are: 740 Park Avenue, the Empire State Building, and 3 Park Avenue. He was educated at Columbia University’s School of Architecture, and worked at the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White. Later he partnered with Wallis & Goodwillie before joining Shreve and Lamb to form Shreve, Lamb & Harmon. Personally he also designed several buildings of relative note, namely Jerusalem International YMCA and Ten-Eyck-Troughton Residence.

6. Walter Adolph Georg Gropius

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture.

7. Frank Lloyd Wright

Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 projects and completed 500 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture, best exemplified by his design for Fallingwater (1935). He was a leader of the Prairie Schoolmovement of architecture, and developed the concept of the Usonian home, his unique vision for urban planning in the United States.

8. Remment Lucas Koolhaas 

Koolhaas is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and “Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design” at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, USA. Koolhaas studied at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam, at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Koolhaas is the founding partner of OMA, and of its research-oriented counterpart AMO, currently based in Rotterdam, Netherlands. In 2005 he co-foundedVolume Magazine together with Mark Wigley and Ole Bouman.

9. Arata Isozaki

Isozaki is a Japanese architect from Ōita. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1954. Isozaki worked under Kenzo Tange before establishing his own firm in 1963. He was awarded the RIBA Gold Medal in 1986. In 2005, Arata Isozaki founded the Italian branch of his office: Arata Isozaki & Andrea Maffei Associates. Two major projects from this office are currently underway: CityLife office tower, a redevelopment project in the former trade fair area in Milan, and the new Town Library in Maranello, Italy.

10. Santiago Calatrava Valls

Valls is a Spanish architect, sculptor and structural engineerwhose principal office is in Zürich, Switzerland. Classed now among the elite designers of the world, he has offices in Zürich, Paris, Valencia, and New York City.