William Morris – Beauty of Practicality
2023-03-27
Morris believed his responsibility was “to revive a sense of beauty in home life, to restore the dignity of art to household decoration.Read More →
Antonia Astori (b.1940) co-founded Driade
2023-03-18
Antonia Astori co-founded Driade with her brother Enrico and Adelaide Acerbi in 1968. She was able to create a unique network of furniture designers, galleries, and shops.Read More →
Peter Behrens (1868 – 1940) – German architect/designer
2023-03-16
Peter Brehens (1868 – 1940) was a German graphic artist, architect and designer. He studied at the Karlsruhe and in Düsseldorf and Munich.Read More →
Peter Behrens (1868 – 1940) – German architect and designer
2023-03-14
Peter Brehens (1868 – 1940) was a German graphic artist, architect and designer. He studied at the Karlsruhe and in Düsseldorf and Munich.Read More →
Frantz Jourdain (1847 – 1935) Belgian architect and author
2023-03-05
Frantz Jourdain (1847 – 1935) was an architect and author from Belgium. He is best known for La Samaritaine, an Art Nouveau department store designed in three stages between 1904 and 1928 in Paris’s 1st arrondissement. He was regarded as an Art Nouveau expert.Read More →
Otto Wagner (1841 – 1918), Austrian architect and designer
2023-02-20
Architect Otto Wagner was one of the leading figures in the Vienna Secession. After studying architecture at the Vienna Technical High School (1857–1860) and the Vienna Academy (1861–183), he worked in various historical styles for many years until he joined the Secession.Read More →
Maya Lin (b.1959) an American architect and designer
2023-01-09
Embed from Getty Images Maya Lin is an American architect. She was born in Athens,Read More →
Sydney Opera House – Design Classic
2023-01-06
The design of the Sydney Opera House (1956-73), which he won in an international competition, was Utzon’s crowning achievement. He envisioned a solid sculptural building made of a series of giant interlocking billowing white ‘sails’ inspired by the ships of Sydney Harbour.Read More →
Max Ernst Haefeli (1901-1976) – Swiss architect and designer
2023-01-04
Max Ernst Haefeli (1901-1976) was a Swiss architect and designer born in Zurich. He worked in the Otto Bartning studio in Berlin between 1923-24.Read More →
Sigfried Giedion (1888 – 1968) – Swiss art historian and designer
2023-01-03
Sigfried Giedion (1888-1968) was a Swiss art historian and designer. He was born in Prague. Read More →
Henry Varnum Poor (1887 – 1970) American Designer & Artist
2023-01-01
Henry Varnum Poor (1887-1970) was an American architect, painter, sculptor, muralist, potter, and architect. He was the grandnephew of Henry Varnmum Poor, a founding member of the company that became Standard & Poor’s.Read More →
Helen Abson (b.1942) Australian Architect and Fabric Designer
2022-09-23
Helen Abson, who trained as an architect, is an Australian designer. She pursued architecture for five years; founded ZAB Design where she designed fabrics that exhibited a preoccupation for texture achieved through pattern and colour.Read More →
Nigel Coates (b.1949) English architect and designer
2022-08-17
He co-founded Branson Coates Architecture with Doug Branson in 1985 before opening his architecture and design studio in 2006. He was a partner in the Branson Coates architecture and design studio and the founder of the radical NATO (Narrative Architecture Today, established in London in 1983) design group (established in 1985).Read More →
Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007) Father of Anti-Design
2022-08-16
Although trained and active as an architect, Sottsass secured a permanent place in pop culture with his designs of everyday items. From 1957, he was a consultant designer at Olivetti, where he designed computers, adding machines, typewriters, and systems furniture. Read More →
Arata Isozaki (b. 1931) is a Japanese architect, urban designer
2022-08-14
Arata Isozaki is a Japanese architect, urban designer, and theorist from Ōita. He was awarded the RIBA Gold Medal in 1986 and the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2019.Read More →
Eliot Noyes (1910 – 1977) American industrial designer
2022-08-14
Eliot Noyes (1910 – 1977) was an industrial designer from the United States. From 1928 to 1932, he studied architecture at Harvard University, followed by stints at the Graduate School of Design from 1932 to 1935 and 1937 to 1938. Read More →
Pierre Vágó (1910 – 2002) Hungarian Architect and Designer
2022-07-24
Pierre Vago was a Hungarian Architect and designer. He studied at the École Spéciale d’Architecture, Paris.
He settled in France in 1928, where he was editor-in-chief on three issues of the review L’Architecture d’aujourd’hui. After World War 2, he was active in reviving the journal and set up his architecture office. In 1948 he left the journal, and it was in 1948 that he became a member of UAM (Union des Artistes Modernes). He built the Basicila de Saint-Pi X (with architect Pierre Pinsard and engineer Eugéne Freysinnet) in Lourdes.Read More →
Gino Valle (1923 – 2003) Italian architect, designer and town planner
2022-07-22
Gino Valle (1923 – 2003) was. Italian architect, designer, and town planner. He was born in Udine. He studied at the Instituto Universitario di Architettura, Venice, to 1948. From 1951, he was at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts.Read More →
Kurt Thut (1931 – 2011) Swiss Designer and Manufacturer
2022-07-21
Kurt Thut (b. 1931-2011) was born in Möriken, Switzerland. In his father’s workshop, while attending the School of Art and Design in Zurich, Thut improved his carpentry skills.Read More →
Tom Ngo’s Architectural Absurdity
2022-06-22
“Common sense and conventional practice prohibit the evolution of architecture.” This is the first quote you find reading Tom Ngo’s Master’s thesis: The Dinner Address, A Venture into Architectural Absurdity. Read More →