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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 [...]

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 [...]

Paolo Soleri
b. Turin, 1919.
Paolo Soleri - Visionary Italian architect and planner who has created the word “arcology”, combining architecture and ecology. Educated in Italy between the world wars, Soleri graduated as a Dottore in Architettura from the Turin Politecnico in 1946. Apprenticeship for sixteen months with Frank Lloyd Wright followed. His first building, the [...]

Willem Marinus Dudok
b. Amsterdam, 1884;
d. Hilversum, 1974.
Willem Marinus Dudok, an influential Dutch architect and town planner who, despite completing over 240 projects, is primarily remembered internationally for a handful of beautifully crafted brick buildings from the 1920-30s in the town of Hilversum. After graduating as an engineer from the Royal Military Academy at Breda, Dudok [...]