Thumb Family - Michael Thumb, Christian Thumb & Peter Thumb

Thumb Family - Michael Thumb, Christian Thumb & Peter Thumb
Michael Thumb, b. Bezau, Austria, c.1640, d. 1690;
Christian Thumb, b. Bezau, 1683, d. 1726;
Peter Thumb, b. 1681, d. 1766.
Thumb Family - Austrian famous architects and masons. Michael Thumb was a founder of the Austrian Voralberger school of architects, noted mainly for a large series of Benedictine [...]

Mimar Koca Sinan

Mimar Koca Sinan (Great Architect Sinan)
b. Anatolia, 1489;
d. Istanbul, 1588.
Sinan - The greatest of all Ottoman famous architects, whose architectural career spanned fifty years and the reigns of Suleyman the Magnificent and Selim II. His great mosques are the archetypal image of Turkish Ottoman architecture. Sinan was born of Greek Christian parents. In 1512 he [...]

Vladimir Evgrafovich Tatlin

Vladimir Evgrafovich Tatlin
b. Moscow, 1885;
d. Moscow, 1953.
Vladimir Evgrafovich Tatlin was a Russian avant-garde artist whose work with materials was a major inspiration to the Constructivist movement in architecture and design. Tatlin trained at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1902-4) and at Penza Art School (1904-10), often breaking his studies to work [...]

Ivar Justus Tengbom

Ivar Justus Tengbom
b. Vireda, Sweden, 1878;
d. Stockholm, 1968.
Ivar Justus Tengbom was an influential early 20-century Swedish famous architect and teacher. Tengbom began his architectural studies at the Chalmers Technical Institute in Goteborg in 1894 and went on to attend the Academy of Art in Stockholm, where he received the Gold Medal in 1901. Between 1900 [...]