Jorn Utzon

Jorn Utzon
b. Copenhagen, 1918.
Jorn Utzon, a Danish Modern architect studied at the Academy of Arts, Copenhagen, under Kay Fisker and Steen Eiler Rasmussen (1937-42), and spent the war years 1942-5 with Gunnar Asplund. In 1946, Jorn Utzon visited Alvar Aalto in Helsinki. He travelled in Europe (1947-8) and the USA [...]

Rudolph M. Schindler

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 [...]

Sir Raymond Unwin

Sir Raymond Unwin
b. Rotherham, Yorks., 1863;
d. Connecticut, USA, 1940.
Sir Raymond Unwin, a famous British architect and town planner who put his social-welfare beliefs into practice by designing, with his partner Barry Parker, decent small dwellings and putting his mind to the perennial problems of town planning. Educated at Oxford, Unwin went on to study engineering [...]

John Wood the Elder and Younger

John Wood the Elder and Younger
John Wood the Elder, b. Bath, 1704; d. Bath, 1754.
John Wood the Younger, b. Bath, 1727; d. Batheaston, 1781.
John Wood the Elder was a prominent architect in English Palladianism during the first half of the C18. Son of a builder, he began his apprenticeship as a joiner in London at [...]