Carl Ludvig Engel
b. Germany, 1778;
d. Finland, 1840.
Architect whose solemn scale and elegance, modesty without being plainness, influenced and defined the emerging sensibility within Finnish architecture. His early training was at the Bauakademie in Berlin before he moved to Tallinn in Estonia, where he worked as an architect from 1808 to 1814. His visit to Leningrad [...]

Frank Lloyd Wright was the most talented famous architect of the c20; an American with Welsh ancestry. He was inspired by his mother to become an architect. Boyhood summers on his uncle’s farm embued a love of nature. Wright’s first building dates from 1886. In that year, as a young man, he was cited [...]

James Stirling
b. Glasgow, 1926.
Internationally known, controversial and multi-faceted British architect. Stirling trained at Liverpool University (1945-50), where the syllabus was based on Beaux-Arts principles. He began work with Lyons, Israel & ELLIS in London (1953-6) and met James Gowan, with whom he worked in partnership (1956-63). They produced a small number of influential buildings, [...]

Rudolph M. Schindler
b. Vienna, 1887;
d. Los Angeles, 1953. I
Rudolph M. Schindler, a first-generation architect of Modern Architecture (Modernist) who immigrated early to the USA, where he worked for a time with famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright. His career outside Europe led to lack of recognition but his reputation was rescued by the writings of [...]