Top 10 Architects

Here are the top 10 architects that we learned about in class and some of their styles:
Mis Von Der Rohe

• "less is more" he used a frame and more class to let more light in.

Shin Takamatsu

• Used a look of machinery and organic original look.

Andrea Palladio

• Used proportion and symmetry

Etienne Louis Boulle

• Large, simplified, repetition

Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Grisor or Le Corlarsier

• unconventional, sculpture forms, irregular repetition

Frank Furness

• Victorian, powerful and corky, over sized and stretched

Frank Llyod Wright

• Organic free flowing patterns, repetition

Antoni Gaudi

• Breaks from lines, not symmetrical, wavy

Tadao Ando

• Bold, used concrete well, uses water and light to help

Coop Himmelblau

• Deconstructionism,, makes shuffled looking buildings