Deane & Woodward
Established 1851.
Deane & Woodward - Irish partnership which played a key part in the Ruskin-inspired revival of Gothic architecture in Victorian England. The firm of Deane & Woodward was an offshoot from the Dublin-based practice of Thomas Deane, father of Thomas Newenham Deane (b. Cork, 1828; d. 1899). Deane Jr had been educated [...]

Louis Henry Sullivan, proponent of an American architecture who was in the vanguard of the Modern Movement. As a boy, Sullivan discovered the power and mystery of life in Boston and on family farms. A year in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1872-3) was followed by several months in draughting jobs with Furness [...]

Sir Christopher Wren
b. East Knoyle, Wilts., 1632;
d. London, 1723.
Sir Christopher Wren - The best-known and probably the greatest of English famous architects. This reputation is earned for his brilliant design of St Paul’s Cathedral, London, and the ingenuity of his City churches. Wren was born into a clerical household in Wiltshire. His father was appointed [...]

Eliel Saarinen
b. Rantasalmi, Finland, 1873;
d. Michigan, 1950.
Eliel Saarinen is a Finnish famous architect who, by preserving a rigour from Art Nouveau and never quite succumbing to the full sentiment, produced exacting structures and restraint ? especially at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan ? which can be seen to pre-empt many of the concerns of [...]