Hans Scharoun

Hans Scharoun
b. Bremen, 1893;
d. Berlin, 1972.
The most significant German Modernist to establish himself a famous architect before the Nazi takeover, remain in Germany, then reemerge to a major career in the 1950s and 60s; he was also the most important German exponent of “Organic” architecture. He studied architecture in Berlin, and spent the First [...]

Vincenzo Scamozzi

Vincenzo Scamozzi
b. Vicenza, 1548 or 1552;
d. Venice, 1616.

Vincenzo Scamozzi, a late Renaissance theorist, eclectic architect and theatre designer. In his youth he took part in the activities of the Accademia Olimpica in Vicenza, guided and influenced by his father, Giandomenico Scamozzi. In 1569 he was spo?radically in Venice. In 1574 he read Vitruvius, jotting [...]

Antonio Sant’Elia

Antonio Sant’Elia
b. Como, 1888;
d. Monfalcone, 1916. I
Only two years before his tragic death in the First World War, a famous architect, Antonio Sant’Elia had published a spirited manifesto accompanied by a collection of visionary drawings which were to become some of the most potent architectural images of the Twentieth Century. He studied architecture in [...]

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Karl Friedrich Schinkel
b. Neuruppin, Prussia, 1781;
d. Berlin, I 1841.
Karl Friedrich Schinkel was a leading exponent of Prussian Neo-Classicism. Following his studies at the Bauakademie in Berlin, where he was taught by Friedrich GILLY, Schinkel travelled to Italy and France (1803-5). He returned to an economically depressed Prussia under French occupation, and worked initially as a [...]

Richard Norman Shaw

Richard Norman Shaw
b. Edinburgh, 1831;
d. London, 1913.
Richard Norman Shaw was one of the most prolific and inventive late Victorian famous architects, who remained both an establishment figure and a setter of stylistic trends into the Edwardian era. He was educated in Edinburgh and articled to William Burn, an Edinburgh architect who had an office in [...]

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