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Frank FurnessOn the occasion of its centennial in 1969, the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects memorialized Furness as its great architect of the past :'' For designing original and bold buildings free of the prevalent Victorian academicism and imitation, buildings of such vigor that the flood of classical traditionalism could not overwhelm them, or him, or his clients... For shaping iron and concrete with a sensitive understanding of their particular characteristics that was unique for his time... For his significance as innovator-architect along with his contemporaries John Root, Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright... For his masterworks, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Provident Trust Company, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station, and the University of Pennsylvania Library (now renamed the Furness Building)... For his outstanding abilities as draftsman, teacher and inventor... For being a founder of the Philadelphia Chapter and of the John Stewardson Memorial Scholarship in Architecture... And above all, for creating architecture of imagination, decisive self-reliance, courage, and often great beauty, an architecture which to our eyes and spirits still expresses the unusual personal character, spirit and courage for which he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery on a Civil War battlefield.''
Hermann MuthesiusHe focused the next six years investigating and residential architecture and domestic lifestyle and design, ending with a three volume report published in 1904 as ('' The English House''), his most famous work.
Liang SichengTo cite Princeton University, which awarded him an honorary doctoral degree in 1947, he was `` a creative architect who has also been a teacher of architectural history, a pioneer in historical research and exploration in Chinese architecture and planning, and a leader in the restoration and preservation of the priceless monuments of his country.''
Stanley HallettIn 1980, Hallett's work helped shape the basis for City Fair, a major alternative technology fair, in Seattle, Wash.
Ken YeangThe Solaris' vertical linear park device led to his concept of the continuous' green ecoinfrastructure', a device that enables a vital ecological nexus between the built form and its surrounding landscape and hinterland, that became a crucial biodiversity component in all his subsequent masterplanning and ecocity design work (e. g. the iconic SOMA Masterplan in Bangalore, India) and in his architecture (e. g. the Spire Edge Tower in Gurgaon, India, completion c. 2013).
Michael WachtlerIn 1999, Wachtler discovered the Fossillagerstätte Kühwiesenkopf, a deposit of fossils at the mountain Kühwiesenkopf in the Dolomites of Prags, classified as the ancient Garden of Eden as, following the great catastrophe during the Permian-Triassic period, during which over 90 % of all living creatures became extinct, a variety of new plants, fish and land animals evolved in this area.
Arthur Korn (architect)There he joined the Modern Architectural Research (MARS) Group where, as chair of the town planning subcommittee, he was involved in drawing up the modernist MARS plan for post war London published in 1942.
Benjamin R. Jacobs Before Jacobs was twenty-seven years old, he had established a successful scientific laboratory in San Francisco and was conducting his own research, when on April 18, 1906, his laboratory was destroyed during the earthquake and the resulting fires that created one of the nation's greatest disasters and destroyed many parts of the city.
John Gaw MeemNot only did he design a large number of the city's most memorable buildings, he also headed the committee which authored the 1957 Historical Zoning Ordinance.
Rose GarrardMalvern, Worcestershire | Malvern, featuring the statue of Sir Edward Elgar Garrard became heavily involved with the restoration of the local springs and the history of Malvern, Worcestershire, and her research carried out in 2006 demonstrated for the first time that well dressing has been part of tradition in the Malvern area since the 12th and 13th centuries.
Charles Eliot (landscape architect)On March 5, 1890 Eliot published an article entitled'' Waverly Oaks'' to defend a stand of virgin trees in Belmont, Massachusetts, in the process making a plea for preservation of the oak s and outlining a strategy for conserving other areas of scenic beauty in the same way that the Boston Public Library held books and the Museum of Fine Arts pictures.
Ken YeangYeang is an early pioneer carrying out design and research in ecological design and planning since 1971, driven by the belief in ecodesign as the basis for saving the planet.
Winy Maas In 1991, together with Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries, he founded the MVRDV studio (an acronym of the initials of the names of the three founders), which produces designs and studies in the fields of architecture, urban studies and landscape design.
Greg KnightIn 2011 he was shortlisted as the ` Industry Champion of the Year' by the International Historic Motoring Awards, for his work in supporting the historic and classic car movement.
Paul SalamanIn 1991, he discovered a distinctive new species of bird (Vireo) to science and sold the scientific name for $ 75,000 as an innovative species sponsoring initiative for seeking conservation funds.
David Gwilym Morris RobertsContinuing his work with sewerage design at John Taylor & Sons he was part of the team that delivered the Cairo Wastewater Project in 1978, one of the largest public-health engineering projects ever constructed.
Frank GehryIn 1997, Gehry vaulted to a new level of international acclaim the museum became famous for its striking yet aesthetically pleasing design and the economic effect that it had on the city.
Frank NewbyHe had designed the British buildings in the 1958 Brussels Expo' 58, and this had helped him establish a reputation for being one of the most creative engineers working at the time.
Vasily KlyukinThe most striking design projects of Vasily Klyukin are'' Nika'' towers,'' Venus'','' Comet Fortune'','' Tulip palace'','' Jungle Park'','' Roses'' In autumn of 2013 the Italian publishing house Skira published the 300-page album'' Designing Legends'' containing 50 concepts for the future towers, office buildings, museums and opera houses.
Gustav StickleyIn 1901 he changed the name of his firm to the United Crafts, issued a new catalogue written by Syracuse professor Irene Sargent, and began to offer middle class consumers a host of progressive furniture designs in ammonia-fumed quartersawn white oak, as well as other mostly native woods.
Bentley Beetham A collection of Beetham's photographs -- those he took in Tibet on the 1924 expedition, considered'' an important historical record of Tibetan culture'', as well as photographs of Barnard Castle, Teesdale, the Alps, the Atlas and Tatra mountains -- is held in Palace Green Library next to Durham Cathedral.
Moon LandrieuMost of that study's recommendations were enacted by Landrieu, including the 1976 establishment of the Historic District Landmarks Commission ('' HDLC''), which extended design review and demolition controls to parts of New Orleans outside of the French Quarter for the first time.
Paulo Mendes da RochaWorking almost exclusively in Brazil, Mendes da Rocha has been producing buildings since 1957, many of them built in concrete, a method some call'' Brazilian Brutalism'', arguably allowing buildings to be constructed cheaply and quickly.
Craig VetterIn 1998, Vetter's design for the British Triumph Hurricane was selected to be in the Guggenheim Museum's The Art of the Motorcycle exhibit which toured the world, and has since become a cult icon and much-valued collectors' item amongst owners' groups.
Linnaeus TripeIn 1858, he took photographs of subjects of architectural or antiquarian interest, and pictures useful from a practical, engineering perspective.
Etai PinkasIn this period he has promoted many projects that had been stalled for years : beginning to build the continental Sludge Treatment Factory of the Dan Region Association of Towns for Environmental Issues & Sewage and halting its emission into the Mediterranean Sea ; progress toward establishing an Israel Sewage Expressway, progress on a sewage pipeline, upgrading the sewage infrastructures throughout The Gush Dan region, and adding new local authorities as clients to the company as Yehud, Beit Dagan, Lod etc.'' In June 2008, Pinkas was awarded the'' Green Globe'' for his environmental work.
Willy LeyHis book Rockets -- the Future of Travel Beyond the Stratosphere (1944) describes the early rockets at VfR and more futuristic projects to reach the moon using a 3-stage rocket'' as high as 1/3 of the Empire State Building'' -- a very good estimate of the height of the Saturn V rocket designed 20 years later.
Louis Sauer Sauer has served on several bodies appointed to advise on architectural and urban design development proposals, including : Sauer's legacy in urban design includes a unique ` signature' new town in the Quebec development context designed in 1992 -- 93 for 25,000 people adjacent to and northwest of Montreal.
Walter HornIn 1957, Horn had participated in an international congress on the plan, and his interest in its guest and service buildings led to his survey of medieval structures in France and England.
Thomas Brown JordanJordan took a great interest in electro-metallurgy during the early years of its development, and in 1841 he made an egg-cup of electro-deposited copper, plated with silver outside and gold inside, which was considered a model of workmanship, and is now deposited in the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street, London.
Edward RuschaIn 1985 Ruscha was commissioned to design a series of fifty murals, WORDS WITHOUT THOUGHTS NEVER TO HEAVEN GO (a quotation from Hamlet), for the rotunda of Miami -- Dade Public Library (now the Miami Art Museum) in Florida, designed by architects Philip Johnson and John Burgee.
Frank PickThe designs Pick commissioned from Holden (1931 -- 33) established a new standard for the Underground, with the prototype station at Sudbury Town being described by architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner as a'' landmark'' and the start of'' the' classic' phase of Underground architecture''.
Wim CrouwelIn the years Crouwel worked for Total Design, he designed many geometric wordmarks, one of which is the wordmark for the Dutch Rabobank, designed in 1973.
Samuel Sloan (architect)In 1861, he wrote Sloan's Homestead Architecture and American Houses, and A Variety of Designs for Rural Buildings.
David KroyankerTo aid the public campaigns, Kroyanker wrote a series of booklets spotlighting the'' architectural and historical value of the streets and buildings'' These booklets were so well-received that he began documenting the history and architecture of Jerusalem for a large-format book series, producing a book every other year at his next post, the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, where he became an architectural historian and documenter in 1981.
Urbain Le VerrierLe Verrier announced his final predicted position for Uranus's unseen perturbing planet publicly to the French Academy on 31 August 1846, two days before Adams's final solution was privately mailed to the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
William H. WhyteWhile working with the New York City Planning Commission in 1969, Whyte began to use direct observation to describe behavior in urban settings.
Tony SaleHe led the construction of a Colossus computer replica at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park in England, completed in 2007.
Andrew Jackson Bryant He was also chairman of an 1887 committee'' to make preparations for an extensive and proper exhibit of interior products at the fair to be given this fall by the Mechanics' Institute.''
John LautnerLautner first defined an architectural solution to the scale, function, and public space of car-oriented suburban architecture in his remodel of Henry's in Glendale in 1947.
Kem WeberHaving worked in Santa Barbara designing Spanish Colonial interiors and several buildings (inspired by ancient Mayan, Egyptian and Minoan architecture), Weber then moved to Los Angeles in 1921 and began working in the industrial and product design field for which he is perhaps best known.
Henry Villardthumb | upright | Henry Villard in 1866 Thereafter he was associated with the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung, for whom he covered the Lincoln-Douglas debates ; On visiting Oregon, he was impressed with the natural wealth of the region, and conceived the plan of gaining control of its few transportation routes.
Kathryn HollowayIn 2004, she was a regular contributor to Building and Construction Trades Today, and contributed features on architectural conversions of Toronto heritage buildings.
Warren H. ManningPlatt, a more formalist designer, emphasized paths, gates and other architectural elements while Manning based his designs on the'' wild garden'' approach (Karson, 1995).
Philip Morton ShandShand's first book on architecture, Modern Theatres and Cinemas was published in 1930 and featured many of those buildings he had encountered in Germany during the late 1920s, arguing that there the cinema had emerged as a separate design typology, not an adaptation of traditional theatre design.
Beverley UssherBeverly Ussher's seminal Cottage by the Sea orphanage at Queenscliff (now demolished), set out the mature Federation villa form : see The Building and Engineering Journal, 8, 184, 9 January 1892, p. 14, A perfect example of a gracious residence standing on a cul-de-sac corner showcasing lavish architectural allure.
Michael G. TurnbullBy the time he left the museum in 1998, he was the Director of Design and Construction, one of the most senior officers at the art museum.
Edgar WoodPerhaps the best way to judge how Wood felt about his years as a pupil can be gleaned from his own comments in a lecture he delivered in 1900 in Birmingham,'' My earliest architectural years were passed in an atmosphere where beautiful creative powers as applied to building, and life in design generally, were drowned in the solemnity of commerce, tracing paper and the checking of quantities.''
Warren H. Manningorg/landscapes/gwinn-estate In 1899, three years after leaving the firm of Olmsted Sr., Manning wrote Eliot, seeking help in creating a professional organization for landscape architects.
Lilly ReichIn 1932 Lilly was asked by van der Rohe to teach at the Bauhaus and direct the interior design workshop.
Adam Fergusson (MEP)His polemic,'' The Sack of Bath'', was first published in 1973 and is a record of how, in the space of a few years, and in the name of modernisation and redevelopment, the city was robbed of its architectural'' undergrowth'' ; and of how ugly new developments wrecked a unique part of the European heritage.
Hiram M. Chittenden With the Army Corps of Engineers, Chittenden was in charge of many notable projects throughout the United States : His 1902 history of the fur trade has been highly influential among historians of the West.
Eduardo Berlin Influenced by the tradition of Modern Architecture and the International Style and by masters such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Richard Neutra and Le Corbusier, Berlin formed his own design studio in Santiago de Chile in 2000, focusing primarily in single-family houses and multi-family residential projects amongst other work with particular bias toward sustainable design practices and technologies in a context based approach.
Stanley MarcusWhile serving as museum chair, Marcus was once called upon by Fred Florence, then chairman of a major local bank and a fellow Temple Emanu-El leader, to explain his inclusion of'' a lot of Communist art'' he'd been told would be included in an upcoming DMFA'' Sports in Art'' exhibit, co-sponsored by Sports Illustrated and United States Information Agency as a fund-raiser for the 1956 Olympic team.
David M. HarperHe was most recently recognized in 2012 in Architecture Leaders Today magazine for his design of three student housing projects, and in habitation Design Magazine for Best Conceptual Student Housing Design, and Best Conceptual Home Design.
Charles Ernest NicholsonThis ultimately led to arguably Nicholson's most beautiful sailing creation, the 1927 commissioned Vita (later Creole) was built on behalf of Alexander Smith Cochran.
Colin RoweAs he continued to publish ground-breaking, intellectually rich, unconventional essays on the history and theory of architecture, and became a permanent resident of the United States (becoming a US citizen towards the end of his life) he went on to influence many other architects, students, and architectural educators during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s (in 1966 he served as a fellow at the Graham Foundation in Chicago) at a time when there was a move towards Postmodern architecture with which he may be partly associated - though only to a very limited extent, and only in a philosophical sense, since his intellectual range, and his all-inclusive interest in every movement and style of architecture, placed him far outside any particular stylistic category.
Willis CarrierWillis Carrier's igloo in the 1939 New York World's Fair gave visitors a glimpse into the future of air conditioning, but before it became popular, World War II began.
Theophil HansenThe Academy and the University buildings were designed by Schinkel's Danish pupil Theophil Hansen, 1885, in Greek Ionic, academically correct even to the polychrome sculpture. -RSB- -RSB-
Harry BeckIn March 2006 viewers of BBC2's The Culture Show and visitors to London's Design Museum voted Harry Beck's Tube map as their second-favourite British design of the 20th century in the Great British Design Quest.
Ron WiggintonIn honoring Wigginton as a fellow in 2002, the American Society of Landscape Architects declared that Wigginton `` has advanced the standing of landscape architecture through his exacting technical expertise in innovative design and sculptural form.
Rudolph Schindler (architect)As Schindler was applying for a Los Angeles license to practice architecture in 1929, he mentioned his extensive work on the architectural and structural plans of the Imperial Hotel.
Geerd HendelIn 1936, Harold Stirling Vanderbilt engaged the Bath Iron Works to build the America's Cup Defender Ranger, the greatest of all J-class yacht s. Geerd Hendel worked with Starling Burgess and a young Olin Stephens on putting together the working drawings (see Olin Stephens's book, All This and Sailing Too).
Gabor AcsIn May 1962, he and Luigi Moretti successfully defended the Watergate complex's design in a special three-hour meeting with the members of the United States Commission of Fine Arts : SGI's chief architect, Gabor Acs, with professor Luigi Moretti of the University of Rome flew to New York City to defend their designs.
Thomas Henry PooleHe wrote a detailed architectural review of the Westminster Cathedral when it opened in London, England, in 1903 : ``... outside of its practical character it ought certainly to lead to the further development of all that is beautiful in art and to the better interior adornment of our churches... giving us the best possible facilities for the carrying out of all the requirements of our religion to the fullest possible extent with all the solemnity and grandeur that the service of man can invoke and the offering of our best works and thoughts as well as of our bodies and souls to God the Lord and Master of all.''
Frances Benjamin JohnstonDaniel Coit Gilman by Johnston, ca. 1890, -LSB- -LSB- Library of Congress -RSB- -RSB- In the 1920s she became increasingly interested in photographing architecture, motivated by a desire to document buildings and gardens which were falling into disrepair or about to be redeveloped and lost.
Andrew HullDuring his studies in 1989 he won the AIA/ACSA Research Council-Otis Elevator International Student Competition for his mixed-use commercial, retail and residential design for a development in historic London.
Robert Sterling YardYard's most successful publicity initiative during this time was the National Parks Portfolio (1916), a collection of nine pamphlets that -- through photographs interspersed with text lauding the scenic grandeur of the nation's major parks -- connected the parks with a sense of national identity to make visitation an imperative of American citizenship.
James DysonDyson was chair of the board of trustees of the Design Museum,'' the first in the world to showcase design of the manufactured object'', until suddenly resigning in September 2004, stating the museum had'' become a style showcase'' instead of'' upholding its mission to encourage serious design of the manufactured object''.
S. Charles LeeHis work in the field of tilt-up building systems was published in Architectural Record in 1952.
Pete DyeAt the time, he was using the design style of Trent Jones, but after seeing the work of Alister MacKenzie, who designed the 1931 Michigan course, Dye decided to incorporate features from two greens into his next project.
Francis PryorPryor returned to the UK in 1970, where the construction of the new town at Peterborough offered the opportunity to do large scale archaeology ahead of the planned development work.
Austen HarrisonNuffield College seems to have been the only building in Britain that he designed ; his other work included the University of Ghana, and a report (in 1945) on the planning of Valletta, Malta.
William W. Bosworth Massachusetts Institute of Technology including the famous Building 10 and Great Dome In 1906 Bosworth was called in to design a garden for the prominent philanthropist, the New Yorker Valentine Everit Macy, who lived at Scarborough-on-Hudson.
Fred RocheIn 1965 he became Chief Architect and Planning Officer for Runcorn new town, developing the master plan and where he hired James Stirling to develop designs for new housing.
Billy AppleThe artist has a long-standing interest and involvement in motor racing, which was acknowledged with the inclusion of two vehicles from his own collection in the 1991 As Good as Gold survey, as well as in the accompanying publication.
Kent TritleHe was artistic consultant on the design and installation in 1993 of the church's renowned four-manual, 68-stop mechanical action organ built by Mander Organs Ltd. of London, England.
Bob and Roberta SmithIn March 2005 Bob and Roberta Smith was commissioned to act as curator on a series of five public art projects in the Thames Gateway area of Essex.
Jade JaggerIn 2011, Jade is appointed for the designing of Lodha Group's Fiorenza project in Goregaon, suburb in Mumbai, blending India's rich and varied traditions with unique cultural elements from across the world, the development is expected to provide residents with the finest in fashionable living.
Walton Danforth Stowellpa0017 Set 2) of the house in August 1957 when he was a student in the NPS Architectural Student Summer Program working for the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS).
Ansel AdamsIn September 1941, Adams contracted with the Department of the Interior to make photographs of National Parks, Indian reservations, and other locations for use as mural-sized prints for decoration of the Department's new building.
Dan KileyIn 1932, he began a four-year apprenticeship with landscape architect Warren Manning, during which he learned the fundamentals of office practice and developed an interest in the role of plants in design, sparking his later creative and innovative use of plants in the landscape.
Calvin Johnson thumb | right | Calvin Johnson's Fred Biletnikoff Award During the 2006 summer, Johnson, who majored in management with a background in building construction, was given the option of working on either constructing environmentally friendly luxury condo s, or a project building solar latrines to improve sanitation in Bolivia.
Erich RaederFor Raeder, the bigger the battleship the better, and throughout his tenure as a Commander-in-Chief, Raeder was forever pressuring naval architects to design bigger and bigger battleships ; by 1937, Raeder was planning on building 100,000-ton battleships.
Rick JoyRick Joy is Principal of Rick Joy Architects, an innovative architecture and planning firm established in 1993 in Tucson, Arizona.
Le Corbusier Villa Savoye It was Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye (1929 -- 31) that most succinctly summed up the five points of architecture that he had elucidated in L'Esprit Nouveau and the book Vers une architecture, which he had been developing throughout the 1920s.
Michael E. Arth In 2000, while working on a book and documentary, The Labors of Hercules : Modern Solutions to 12 Herculean Problems, Arth found a small slum in DeLand, Florida, where he could try out some of his ideas.
Richard FrinierIn 2006, The Robb Report magazine recognized Frinier for his indoor/outdoor furniture design `` Daydream'' by Dedon, identifying it as one of the best designs at large over the past 30 years, and he was also named by the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, California as one of the center's prestigious `` Stars of Design'' in the category of product design.
Tristram HuntHunt's main area of expertise is urban history, specifically during the Victorian era, and it is this subject which provided him with his second book, Building Jerusalem (2004, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ISBN 0297607677).
Frank Lloyd WrightAlready well known during his lifetime, Wright was recognized in 1991 by the American Institute of Architects as'' the greatest American architect of all time.''
Philip B. MeggsHis efforts to record and understand the history of this profession lead him to publish his first book, A History of Graphic Design, in 1983.
Charley MorganMorgan found Heritage Yacht Corporation in 1975, producing trawlers and sailing yachts.
John Kirtland WrightAfter retiring as director from the American Geographical Society, Wright continued his quest for historic elucidation by writing on the history of the Society and its connection to the development of geography (Light 1950).
Joy Postle They arrived in Florida in 1934 and continued their nomadic life, camping, hiking and bird watching ; these explorations gave Postle the opportunity of closely studying nature and refining her craft.
Claudio BelliniIn 1996 along with his father he founded the Atelier Bellini where he has been engaged in architectural projects, product and furniture design both in Italy and abroad and he participated in numerous architecture competitions.
Edith MacefieldIn October 2012, Reach Returns and the developer Lois MacKenzie launched a remodeling project of the Macefield house by installing new windows and expanding the attic space to make room for a bedroom and bathroom.
Charles Davidson BellThroughout his residence at the Cape, he copied old Dutch/Afrikaner coats of arms from memorials, seals, stained glass windows, and other artefacts, and in 1861 he advertised his intention of publishing them in book form.
George MaciunasIn 2008, the gallery held an exhibition devoted to Maciunas' architectural projects, in particular, a utopian housing structure Maciunas drafted in the late fifties and early sixties, entitled'' George Maciunas : Prefabricated Building Systems.''
William Pitt (architect)Pitt began his own architectural practice in 1879 and he became highly sought after during the land boom in Melbourne, working almost solely in commercial architecture and becoming one of the a prolific proponent of eclecticism, in particular the Gothic revival and Second Empire styles of architecture.
Barton Myers1,4 In 2006, Barton Myers wrote a book'' 3 Steel Houses'' which chronicles his explorations of steel house design throughout his career and its historical context.