All Architects
Yehuda Lulka
born 1905, Veniza
Studied in Paris then got a scholarship in the Technion in Haifa. Graduated from the Technion in Construction Engineering in 1930. In 1930 he established a construction firm in Tel-Aviv.
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Magidowitz was Tel Aviv's first architect, designing many buildings and serving as City Engineer from 1920 – 1923. Born in Russia in 1886, Megidowitz studied architecture in the Odessa Academy. His work spanned over the 20's and 30's in which Tel Aviv grew from a small neighborhood to a large..
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Yeregeny Rozanov
born 1925, Moscow
Yeregeny Rozanov was born 1925 in Moscow.
In 1945 Rozanov entered the Moscow Institute of Architecture and was a student of Vladimir Fedorovich Krinsky, one of the founders of VKhUTEMAS.
He graduated in 1951 and was invited right after his study to work in the architectural studio GA Zakharov...
Yoji Watanabe
born 1923, Tokyo
Yoji Watanabe was born 1923, in Joetsu. The son of a long line of carpenters, Watanabe defied his father and enrolled at the Takada College of Technology, where he studied until 1941. Which was followed by working at the Nihon Steel Group until 1947, he was then hired by the architectural firm..
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Yona Friedman
born 1923, Budapest
Yona Friedman is a Hungarian-born French architect, urban planner and designer. He was influential in the late 1950s and early 1960s, best known for his theory of mobile architecture. Friedman has been through the Second World War escaping the Nazi roundups and lived for about a decade in the..
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Yoshinobu Ashihara (1918-2003) is a japanese architect. Born in Tokyo, Ashihara graduated from the University of Tokyo and received his master's degree in architecture from Harvard University. In 1956, he established his own firm Yoshinobu Ashihara Architect and Associates. He was professor at..
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Yoshio Taniguchi
born 1937, Tokyo
Yoshio Taniguchi (谷口吉生, Taniguchi Yoshio; born 1937) is a Japanese architect best known for his redesign of the Museum of Modern Art in New York which was reopened November 20, 2004.
Taniguchi is the son of architect Yoshirō Taniguchi (1904-1979). He studied engineering at Keio University,..
Yrjö Lindegren
born 1900, Tampere
Yrjö Lorenzo Lindegren (13 August 1900 – 12 November 1952) was a Finnish architect. He was born in Tampere and died in Helsinki. He graduated as an architect in 1925 from the Helsinki University of Technology, and set up his own office later the same year.
Lindegren's best-known work is the..
Yuan Chun Liu (Cam Liu)
born 1987, Taipei
Yuan Chun Liu (Cam Liu) is a spatial a designer from Taiwan, currently based in Rotterdam. My work is based on the exploration of architecture beyond the market with a special interest in affordable housing by researching commons and commoning. I am currently an active resident at “City in the..
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Yulian L. Shvartsbreim
born 1920, Kiev
Yuri Platonov
born 1929, Moscow
Yuri P. Platonov was born September 4, 1929 in Moscow. He graduated in 1953 from the Moscow Architectural Institute. From 1953 to present time, he works in Gipron Academy of Sciences (B.. Akademproekt). Since 1991 he is the creative and scientific director of the Institute and Professor at the..
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Zaha Hadid
born 1950, Baghdad
Zaha Hadid was an Iraqui British architect (31 October 1950 - 31 March 2016). She received a degree in mathematics from the American University of Beirut before moving to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.
After graduating she worked with her former..
Zdeněk Fránek
born 1961, Boskovicích
Zdeněk Fránek is a Czech architect (born 26 August 1961 in Boskovice, Czech Republic), dean at Faculty of Architecture at Technical University of Liberec. Zdeněk Fránek designs, publishes and teaches in the Cezch Republic and abroad.
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Zdenko Sila
born 1915, Prague
Zdenko Sila (Prague, February 2, 1915 - Rijeka, January 25, 1997) was a Croatian architect and urbanist. He was born in Prague to a Slovenian father and Czech mother. During the I. WW they moved to Maribor where Zdenko finished high school. He studied architecture at Jože Plečnik at the Faculty..
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Zigzag arquitectura
est. 2005, Madrid
Zigzag architecture was founded in Madrid, Spain in 2005 by Bernardo Angelini and David Casino, both architects by the ETSAM (Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid). They had previously worked for prestigious firms like Foreign Office Architects, Nomad (E. Arroyo), Matos+Castillo,..
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zirup
est. 2009, Vienna
Zirup was founded by a group of fellow students and friends in 2009. All started out with the basic desire to create a place where things can happen. With that simple idea as a core, Zirup (Michael Manigatterer) evolved into a base for creative processes focused on architecture.
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Živko Popovski
born 1934
Živko Popovski (alternative spellings: Zivko, Zhivko, 1934–2007) was the most prominent Macedonian architect after the Second World War.
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Živorad Janković
born 1924, Višegrad
Živorad Janković Bosnian architect, professor and dean of the Faculty of Architecture in Sarajevo and a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
He finished his higher education in Sarajevo, and got a degree in architecture in Belgrade in 1950. From 1950 till 1952..
Zlatko Ugljen
born 1929, Mostar
Zlatko Ugljen is a Bosnian architect. He was born in Mostar in 1929 and he has designed a number of architectural achievements. His works include economic buildings, private housing, religious buildings and cultural institutions. Particularly interesting are his Hotels: "Ruža" in Mostar,..
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Zoltán Gulyás
born 1930, Budapest
Zoltán Gulyás (April 10, 1930 - June 16, 2000) was a hungarian architect. He studied architecture at the Imperial Joseph College in Budapest.
He graduated in 1952, and start working at the atelier of István Janáky within the Institution for Public Building Design. He was involved in the..
Zvi Hecker
born 1931, Kraków
Zvi Hecker was born on May 31, 1931 in Kraków, Poland) is an Israeli architect with offices in Berlin and Amsterdam. Hecker immigrated to Israel from Samarkand in 1950. He studied architecture in the Israel Institute of Technology, graduating in 1955. Between 1955 and 1957, he studied painting at..
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