Ivan Yegorovich Starov

Ivan Yegorovich Starov
b. Moscow, 1744;
d. St Petersburg, 1808.
Ivan Yegorovich Starov was the founder of the simple, antique-inspired Empire style of Russian classicism, and one of its spatially most original exponents. From a church family, Starov entered the new Moscow University’s gymnasium (secondary school) in 1755, and then from 1758 was among the first pupils [...]

Sir John Soane

Sir John Soane
b. Goring-on-Thames, 1753;
d. London, 1837.
Sir John Soane’s architecture is in a class by itself; original, mannered, with a brilliant control of internal space and light, and a fondness for shallow domes, repeated segmental arches, clerestories, linear ornament and colour. Whether or not it was his humble origin as the son of a [...]

Robert A. M. Stern

Robert A. M. Stern
b. New York, 1939.
Robert A. M. Stern, a prolific New York Post-Modern classicist. On finishing his studies at Columbia, New York and Yale (1965), Stern became a designer with Richard Meier (1966) and subsequently worked as a planner for New York City. He set up his own practice with John Hagmann [...]

Nicodemus Tessin the Elder and Younger

Nicodemus Tessin the Elder and Younger
Nicodemus Tessin the Elder, b. Stralsund, 1615; d. Stockholm, 1681.
Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, b. Nykoping, 1654; d. Stockholm 1728.
Nicodemus Tessin the Elder and Younger were influential Swedish Baroque famous architects, father and son in a family originating in Pomerania. The elder Nicodemus, who like other architects of his time [...]

George Edmund Street

George Edmund Street
b. Woodford, Essex, 1824;
d. London, 1881.
George Edmund Street,a leading British practitioner and theorist of High Victorian Gothic. After three years in the office of Owen Carter of Winchester, he worked in Scott’s London office 1845-9. He practised in Oxford (1852-6) and subsequently in London. A member of the Ecclesiological Society, he was [...]

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