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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]