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Otto Wagner
b. Penzing, near Vienna, 1841;
d. Vienna, 1918.
Otto Wagner - Highly influential figure, through teaching, writing and projects, in the development of modern architecture and planning; founder of the so-called Wagner School. He began his architectural training at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna in 1857, attended the Berlin Bauakademie 1860-61 and returned to Vienna to [...]

Gottfried Semper
b. Hamburg, 1803;
d. Rome, 1879.
Architect of some of the most successful Neo-Renaissance buildings in 19-Century Europe who also produced a large body of theoretical writings on the origins and nature of architecture which were to have a major impact on the early advocates of Modernist, functional design. Before completing his mathematical studies at Gottingen, [...]