Alberto Rosselli (1921-76) Italian architect and industrial designer
2022-02-04
Alberto Rosselli (1921-76) Italian architect and industrial designer. He was born in Palermo. He was professionally active in Milan. Read More →
Helen Abson Australian Architect and Fabric Designer
2022-02-03
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 →
René-André Coulon (1908 – 1997) furniture with tempered glass
2022-01-13
René-André Coulon was a furniture designer from France. He did architectural studies until 1937. In his work, Coulon integrated tempered glass, some of which Hagnauer, Vienna, made. He designed the interior furniture of Adnet for Saint-Gobain.Read More →
Oscar Niemeyer (1907 – 1912) Brazilian architect and designer
2022-01-10
Oscar Niemeyer (1907 – 1912) was a Brazilian architect and designer. He was born in Rio de Janeiro. He studied architecture at the National School of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro.Read More →
Alvar Aalto (1898 – 1976) Finnish Architect, town planner and designer of furniture
2022-01-04
Aalto was considered a hero in Finland. He was responsible for much planning and construction following the end of the war between Finland and the soviet union in 1944.Read More →
Pier Luigi Nervi (1891 – 1971) – Italian Architect
2022-01-01
After experience with a concrete contractor, he set up his firm in Bologna in 1923. His first structure was a 1927 cinema in Naples: His first important work was the 1930-32 Communal Stadium in Florence, widely published as an early example of Modern architecture. Read More →
MARS (Modern Architectural Research Group) (1933 – 1957)
2021-11-29
The MARS Group, or Modern Architectural Research Group, was a British architectural think tank created in 1933 by numerous famous architects and architectural critics participating in the British modernist movement. The MARS Group was created after several prior but unsuccessful attempts to establish an organization to promote modernist architects in the United Kingdom, similar to organizations created in continental Europe, such as France’s Union des Artistes Modernes.Read More →
Brian O’Rorke (1901 – 1974) New Zealand architect and interior designer
2021-11-23
Brian O’Rorke was a New Zealand architect and interior designer. He was professionally active in Britain. He studied architecture, Cambridge University and Architectural Association, London. His style was uncompromisingly Modern. The 1932 music room he designed for Mrs Robert Solomon in London included a swirl-motif rug by Marion Dorn. Read More →
Ray Eames an American Designer
2021-11-23
Ray Eames (b. Bernice Alexandra Kaiser 1912-88) was an American designer. She was born in Sacramento, California. She was the wife of Charles Eames. Read More →
Aldo Rossi (1931 – 1997) Italian designer and architect
2021-11-22
Aldo Rossi (1931 – 1997) was an Italian architect. He was born and professionally active in Milan.
He is considered by many to be the greatest Italian architect of the second half of the 20th century. His life as an architect began with Gardella and Zanuso. Read More →
Patrizia Ranzo Italian architect and designer
2021-11-19
Patrizia Ranzo is an Italian architect and designer. She was born and active in Naples. She studied architecture in Naples to 1981. Read More →
The Schloss Blühnbach castle in Austria
2021-11-16
Schloss Blühnbach is a hunting castle in the Austrian Alps dated from the 17th century. It was extended in 1911 by Archduke Francis Ferdinand; it also includes his art and antiques.Read More →
Brutalism without borders: 20 buildings around the world
2021-11-07
It is an architecture alien to any intellectualism, which speaks to the masses whose needs it interprets, especially in the conception of civic and community architecture.Read More →
Does the Significance of Brutalism Endure?
2021-11-04
AZoBuild talks to Alex Anderson from the University of Washington about the history of Brutalism and its significance now. Read More →
Spotlight: Arata Isozaki – Japanese Architect & Designer
2021-11-02
Japanese architect, teacher, and theorist Arata Isozaki (born 23 July 1931) helped bring Japanese influence to some of the most prestigious buildings of the 20th century and continues to work at the highest level today. Initially working in a distinctive form of modernism, Isozaki developed his thoughts and theories on architecture into a complex style that invokes pure shape and space as much as it evokes post-modern ideas. Highly adaptable and socially concerned, his work has been acclaimed for being sensitive to context while still making its statements.Read More →
Loyly Floating Sauna Raises Bar on Minimalist Design
2021-11-01
The Löyly was created by Tolle Rudebeck Harr as his graduate degree project. The sauna takes its inspiration from Finnish and Japanese architecture, and the result is so clean and straightforward that it must have helped Trolle graduate with honors.Read More →
Charles Gwathmey (1938 – 2009) American Architect & Designer
2021-09-22
He was the son of American painter Robert Gwathmey and photographer Rosalie Gwathmey, and was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. Charles Gwathmey studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Read More →
“International Style” Architecture of the Modern Movement
2021-09-21
Alfred H. Barr Jr. coined the term in 1931 in conjunction with Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock’s 1932 “Modern Architecture: International Exhibition” (along with the accompanying book International Style: Architecture Since 1922) at the New York Museum of Modern Art, where Barr was director.Read More →
Sydney to Chateau Vaux le Vicomte in under a minute
2021-07-26
The Google Art Project sponsored this trip, and after setting up my iMac deskspaMy curiosity piqued, I was confident that there was a digital experience awaiting me.Read More →
The Schloss Blühnbach Castle in Austria
2021-07-21
Schloss Blühnbach is a hunting castle in the Austrian Alps dated from the 17th century. It was extended in 1911 by Archduke Francis Ferdinand; it also includes his art and antiques.Read More →