Robert Adam

Robert Adam
b. Kirkcaldy, Fife, 1728;
d. London, 1792.

Unquestionably Scotland’s most famous architect and one of the most celebrated of British architects. He formed a fertile repertory of new ideas on a visit to Italy (1754-8), and at his return to London he was determined to become the leader of classical revival in England in architecture and [...]

Alvar Aalto

Alvar Aalto
b. Kuortane, Finland, 1898;
d. Helsinki, 1976.
The singular figure who established modern architecture in Finland. He studied at Helsinki Polytechnic, graduating in 1921 with all possible honours. His early work showed the familiar signs of a developing Neo-Classicism, but he ruptured the architectural scene in 1929 with his Internationalist-inspired entry for Paimio Sanatorium in [...]

John Wood the Elder and Younger

John Wood the Elder and Younger
John Wood the Elder, b. Bath, 1704; d. Bath, 1754.
John Wood the Younger, b. Bath, 1727; d. Batheaston, 1781.
John Wood the Elder was a prominent architect in English Palladianism during the first half of the C18. Son of a builder, he began his apprenticeship as a joiner in London at [...]

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 [...]