Jacques Germain Soufflot
b. Irancy, Auxerre, 1713;
d. Paris, 1780.1
Jacques Germain Soufflot was a seminal French Neo-Classicist, notable in particular for the Hotel-Dieu in Lyon and Ste Genevieve (the Pantheon) in Paris. In Rome from c.1731 to 1738, he gravitated to the French Academy, where several younger pensionaries were to be associated with the [...]

Harry Seidler
b. Vienna, 1923.
International and Modern architect who has sought a modern building culture for Australia. Seidler’s output, extending over more than four decades, represents an intelligent and far from rigid application of the tenets of Modernism. He studied at the University of Manitoba (1941-4) and completed his postgraduate studies under Walter Gropius at Harvard, [...]

Sir George Gilbert Scott
b. Gawcott, Bucks., 1811;
d. London, 1878.
Sir George Gilbert Scott, a famous architect who is the most prolific exponent of the High Gothic revival in Britain. He was articled to James Edmeston (1827-31) and in partnership with W B. Moffat (c.1834-1845). After encountering Pugin’s ideas, he became an early adherent of the new [...]

Paolo Soleri
b. Turin, 1919.
Paolo Soleri - Visionary Italian architect and planner who has created the word “arcology”, combining architecture and ecology. Educated in Italy between the world wars, Soleri graduated as a Dottore in Architettura from the Turin Politecnico in 1946. Apprenticeship for sixteen months with Frank Lloyd Wright followed. His first building, the [...]