Alexander Thomson

Alexander Thomson
b. Balfron, Scotland, 1817;
d. Glasgow, I 1875.

Alexander Thomson was the last and most original of the few great Neo-Classic famous architects. Employed in architecture from the age of 14, he worked with John Baird from 1836 until he set up in his own practice in Glasgow in 1849. Thomson’s quest was for the [...]

Bruno Taut

Bruno Taut
b. Konigsberg, 1880;
d. Istanbul, 1938. I

Key pioneer German avant-garde famous architect and theorist, associated initially with the Activist group of Expressionists and later with the new objectivity or social functionalism. Trained briefly in Konigsberg and Berlin-Charlottenburg, Taut worked in Theodor Fischer’s office in Stuttgart (1904-8) before opening his own firm in Berlin (1910). He [...]

Clorindo Testa

Clorindo Testa
b. Naples, 1923.
Clorindo Testa - Prominent Latin-American famous architect who employs a rigorously empirical approach to the process of architecture. He studied at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the National University of Buenos Aires at a time when the academic curriculum was still dominated by the Beaux-Arts tradition. After graduating in 1948 [...]

Kenzo Tange

Kenzo Tange
b. Osaka, Japan, 1913.
The leading and famous architect in Japan for a quarter-century after the Second World War. Tange studied at the University of Tokyo, graduating in 1938, and worked for Kunio Maekawa (1938-41) before returning to his alma mater to study city planning in the graduate school (1942-5). He became assistant professor [...]

Charles Harrison Townsend

Charles Harrison Townsend
b. Birkenhead, 1851;
d. Northwood, 1928.
Charles Harrison Townsend - Highly individualistic famous architect of the English Arts & Crafts movement who transcended the movement’s largely domestic aspirations and developed a personal vocabulary more appropriate to the demands of the metropolitan environment. Townsend was articled to a Liverpool architect (1870) but moved south [...]

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