Theo Van Doesburg
C. E. M. Kupper
(who also used the pseudonyms Aldo Camini and I.K. Bronset),
b. Utrecht, 1883; d. Davos, Switzerland, 1931.
Founder of De Stijl in Holland, he was the sustaining intellectual of the movement; painter, architect and theoretician, editor of the periodical De .Stijl which, after the departure of Mondrian in 1925 from the movement, [...]

Lluis Domenech Y Montaner
b. Barcelona, 1850;
d. Barcelona, 1923.
Spanish architect, historian and leading figure in the Catalan Modernismo movement. A contemporary of Gaudi, Domenech received his diploma from the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura in Madrid in 1873. The principles of Modernismo - a potent mixture of Art Nouveau, the Modern style, the Jugendstil and [...]

George Dance the Younger
b. London, 1741;
d. London, 1825.
English Neo-Classical architect, Dance absorbed the rudiments of architecture from his father, George Dance the Elder, who was Clerk of Works in the City of London. He studied in Rome and imbibed the principles of European Neo-Classicism. On returning to London he became his father’s assistant and shortly [...]

Philibert Delorme
b. Lyon, c. 1510;
d. Paris, 1570.
Philibert Delorme, a prolific and inventive designer of châteaux, fortifications and public buildings, who taught France the classical style - lucid, rational and regular. He was the son of a building contractor in Lyon and from the age of 15, while studying for the church, managed his father’s business [...]