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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 1814. His visit to Leningrad [...]

Lluis Domenech Y Montaner
b. Barcelona, 1850;
d. Barcelona, 1923.
Spanish architect, historian and leading figure in the Catalan Modernismo movement. A contemporary of Gaudi, Domenech received his diploma from the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura in Madrid in 1873. The principles of Modernismo - a potent mixture of Art Nouveau, the Modern style, the Jugendstil and [...]