http://famedarchitect.com Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:50:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Carl Ludvig Engel b. Germany, 1778; d. Finland, 1840. Architect whose solemn scale and elegance, modesty without being plainness, influenced and defined the emerging sensibility within Finnish architecture. His early training was at the Bauakademie in Berlin before he moved to Tallinn in Estonia, where he worked as an architect from 1808 to ... http://famedarchitect.com/carl-ludvig-engel/ 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 ... http://famedarchitect.com/frank-lloyd-wright/ James Stirling b. Glasgow, 1926. Internationally known, controversial and multi-faceted British architect. Stirling trained at Liverpool University (1945-50), where the syllabus was based on Beaux-Arts principles. He began work with Lyons, Israel & ELLIS in London (1953-6) and met James Gowan, with whom he worked in partnership (1956-63). They produced a ... http://famedarchitect.com/james-stirling/ 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 ... http://famedarchitect.com/rudolph-m-schindler/ Deane & Woodward Established 1851. Deane & Woodward - Irish partnership which played a key part in the Ruskin-inspired revival of Gothic architecture in Victorian England. The firm of Deane & Woodward was an offshoot from the Dublin-based practice of Thomas Deane, father of Thomas Newenham Deane (b. Cork, 1828; d. 1899). ... http://famedarchitect.com/deane-woodward/ Louis Henry Sullivan, proponent of an American architecture who was in the vanguard of the Modern Movement. As a boy, Sullivan discovered the power and mystery of life in Boston and on family farms. A year in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1872-3) was followed by several months ... http://famedarchitect.com/louis-henry-sullivan/ 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 ... http://famedarchitect.com/sir-christopher-wren/ Eliel Saarinen b. Rantasalmi, Finland, 1873; d. Michigan, 1950. Eliel Saarinen is a Finnish famous architect who, by preserving a rigour from Art Nouveau and never quite succumbing to the full sentiment, produced exacting structures and restraint ? especially at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan ? which can be seen to pre-empt ... http://famedarchitect.com/eliel-saarinen/ Do you aware that you can order high quality and stylish prescription eyeglasses online nowadays with just few mouse clicks without physically present at local store? With the advancement of Internet technology, comparison shopping and buying on-line is now a major trend, where a lot of people shop for clothes, ... http://famedarchitect.com/quality-eyeglasses/ 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; ... http://famedarchitect.com/isaac-ware/