All Architects

Walter Gropius (May 18th 1883 – July 5th 1969) is the inventor of the Bauhaus. Born in Berlin, Walter Gropius was the third child of Walter Adolph Gropius and Manon Auguste Pauline Scharnweber. Gropius married Alma Mahler (1879-1964), widow of Gustav Mahler. Walter and Alma's daughter, named..

Hans Emil Meyer called Hannes Meyer (November 18th, 1889 – July 19th, 1954) was a Swiss architect and urbanist and the second director of the Bauhaus in Dessau from 1928 to 1930. Meyer was appointed head of the Bauhaus architecture department when it was established in April 1927. Meyer, a..

Ivan Sergeevich Nikolaev (1901, Voronezh – 1979, Moscow) was a Soviet architect and educator, notable for his late 1920s constructivist architecture and later work in industrial architecture. Nikolaev studied at the Moscow State Technical University under Alexander Vesnin and Alexey Kuznetsov,..

Marcel Lajos Breuer, known as Lajkó (May 21, 1902 – July 1, 1981) studied and taught at the Bauhaus in the 1920s, stressing the combination of art and technology, and eventually became the head of the school's cabinet-making shop. He later practiced in Berlin, designing houses and commercial..

Clotilde and Bernard Barto are two French architects from the Loire region. Bernard Barto (born March 39th 1937 à in Nantes) graduated at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, painting section in 1959 and continued his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris from 1962 to 1964. He has been..

John Burgee, born in 1933, is an American architect renowned for his collaboration with Philip Johnson which resulted in the design and construction of a number of seminal highrise buildings of the Postmodern era.

John Burgee is a 1956 graduate of University of Notre Dame, USA, School of..

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, who chose to be known as Le Corbusier (October 6th, 1887 – August 27th, 1965), was a Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, writer and also painter, who is famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called Modern architecture or the International..

Peter Behrens (April 14th 1868 - February 27th 1940) was one of the leaders of architectural reform at the turn of the century and a major designer of factories and office buildings in brick, steel and glass. Behrens studied painting in his native Hamburg, as well as in Düsseldorf and Karlsruhe..