Frank Lloyd Wright was the most talented famous architect of the c20; an American with Welsh ancestry. He was inspired by his mother to become an architect. Boyhood summers on his uncle’s farm embued a love of nature. Wright’s first building dates from 1886. In that year, as a young man, he was cited [...]

Sir Christopher Wren
b. East Knoyle, Wilts., 1632;
d. London, 1723.
Sir Christopher Wren - The best-known and probably the greatest of English famous architects. This reputation is earned for his brilliant design of St Paul’s Cathedral, London, and the ingenuity of his City churches. Wren was born into a clerical household in Wiltshire. His father was appointed [...]

Isaac Ware
b. c. 1707,
d. London, 1766.

Isaac Ware was a leading English famous architect of the Georgian era, though his importance derives chiefly from his books, which were enormously influential. A man of humble origins, Ware spent his early years (1721-8) as an apprentice to the highly respected architect Thomas Ripley; he later secured the position [...]

Alfred Waterhouse
b. Liverpool, 1830;
d. London, 1905.

Alfred Waterhouse was an English Victorian famous architect. A Quaker by birth, Waterhouse was educated at the Grove House Friends’ School in Liverpool. In 1848 he became an assistant to Richard Lane in Manchester; after five years’ training he made an extensive trip around Europe, returning to set up [...]