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Jose Antonio Coderch Y De Sentmenat
b. Barcelona, 1913;
d. Barcelona, 1984.

Jose Antonio Coderch Y De Sentmenat - Dynamic Spanish architect and urban design theorist. Coderch was trained at the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura in Barcelona (1929-40), but between 1936 and 1939 his education was interrupted by the Spanish Civil War, in which he served as [...]

Karl Friedrich Schinkel
b. Neuruppin, Prussia, 1781;
d. Berlin, I 1841.
Karl Friedrich Schinkel was a leading exponent of Prussian Neo-Classicism. Following his studies at the Bauakademie in Berlin, where he was taught by Friedrich GILLY, Schinkel travelled to Italy and France (1803-5). He returned to an economically depressed Prussia under French occupation, and worked initially as a [...]

Walter Kurt Segal
b. Berlin, 1907;
d. London, 1985.
Walter Kurt Segal - Epitome of the small-scale, independent Modern famous architect whose career links early c20 ideals with late c20 reality. His father was an important painter, and family friends included Tzara, Arp and Oud; Mies Van Der Rohe, Klee and Kandinsky; also Gropius, Mendelsohn and Taut, [...]

Francis Reginald Stevens Yorke
b. Stratford-upon-Avon, 1906;
d. London, 1962.
Pioneer of the Modern Movement in England and founding partner of YRM, a practice which continues to enjoy an enviable reputation in the British architectural scene. Yorke studied architecture and town planning at the University of Birmingham before setting up in private practice in 1930. Principal influences [...]