Architects Set 4
Robert Venturi
Aron Vinegar's book I Am a Monument is a critical examination of book cowritten by this American architect, his wife and partner Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenhour, A Significance for A&P Parking Lots
Peter Zumthor
The 650-million-dollar all-concrete renovation for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) was designed by this Swiss architect
Robert Venturi
The New York Five architects Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Charles Gwathmey, John Hejduk, and Richard Meier, or "the Whites," dissented from the principles laid out in this American architect's book Learning from Las Vegas
Adolf Loos
The façade of this Austrian architect's namesake house was dominated by rectilinear window patterns and a lack of stucco decoration and awnings, which earned it the nickname "House without Eyebrows"
Peter Zumthor
The façade of this Swiss architect's design for the Kunsthaus Bregenz overlooking Lake Constance in Austria consists of 912 finely etched equally sized glass panels secured by clips to a steel framework
Peter Zumthor
The interior of this Swiss architect's Bruder Klaus Chapel is formed from 112 tree trunks arranged into a wigwam and is entered through a triangular steel door
Peter Zumthor
The photographer Hans Danuser collected images of this Swiss architect's buildings such as the Chapel of Saint Benedict in Sumvitg into a book titled Seeing [him]
Robert Venturi
This American architect and coiner of the postmodern maxim "less is a bore" was the founding principal of a firm with his wife and partner Denise Scott Brown
Robert Venturi
This American architect argued that buildings should rely on a technique called poché instead of transparency in his book Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Robert Venturi
This American architect criticized the "Yale Box" and analyzed the "double-functioning" and "both-and" elements of buildings in Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Thom Mayne
This American architect designed Diamond Ranch High School in Pomona, California
Robert Venturi
This American architect designed Fire Station Number 4 in Columbus, Indiana, whose trapezoidal plan is topped by a semicircular tower marked with a giant yellow four
Robert Venturi
This American architect designed a fire station in Columbus, Indiana, with a hose-drying tower inscribed with a gold number four separating the equipment and living quarters
Robert Venturi
This American architect designed a light green five-room church-shaped house with an exposed chimney, a wrap-around staircase, and a gently sloping roof for his mother Vanna
Thom Mayne
This American architect designed the Caltrans District 7 Headquarters in Downtown Los Angeles, which serves the California Department of Transportation and Los Angeles Department of Transportation
Thom Mayne
This American architect designed the University of Toronto Graduate House
Robert Venturi
This American architect designed the postmodern Guild House residential building in Philadelphia
Thom Mayne
This American architect founded Morphosis Architects headquartered in Los Angeles and New York City with Michael Brickler, Livio Santini, and James Stafford
Robert Venturi
This American architect included a massive semicircle "sailboat" window and a large number nine on his Lieb House, which had to be floated up the East River to escape New Jersey
Thom Mayne
This American architect submitted rejected plans for the rebuilt World Trade Center and controversially bought the Ray Bradbury house for $1.765 million
Robert Venturi
This American architect's wife and partner Denise Scott Brown compared him to Howard Roark in her essay "Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture"
Robert Venturi
This American architect's wife and partner Denise Scott Brown refused to attend his 1991 Pritzker Prize ceremony since he was given sole awardship on projects like the Seattle Art Museum
Robert Venturi
This American architect, his wife and partner Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenhour led a group of Yale students on a field trip to study Las Vegas neon casino signs and billboards
Robert Venturi
This American architect, his wife and partner Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenhour wrote the book A Significance for A&P Parking Lots, whose publication led to the development of two opposing factions, the Greys and the Whites
Robert Venturi
This American architect, his wife and partner Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour coined the terms "duck" and "decorated shed" to describe two contrasting style of building decoration in their book Learning from Las Vegas
Robert Venturi
This American architect, his wife and partner Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour published a postmodern folio analysis of the Las Vegas Strip titled Learning from Las Vegas
Adolf Loos
This Austrian architect argued that "the evolution of culture marches with the elimination of ornament from useful objects" in his essay and lecture "Ornament and Crime"
Adolf Loos
This Austrian architect claimed that the desire to decorate utilitarian objects is morally corrupting in his essay and lecture "Ornament and Crime"
Adolf Loos
This Austrian architect collaborated with Karel Lhota to design the Villa Müller, whose raised "theater box" was analyzed by Beatriz Colomina in her book Sexuality and Space
Adolf Loos
This Austrian architect criticized the Art Nouveau movement in his essay and lecture "Ornament and Crime"
Adolf Loos
This Austrian architect submitted a column building design for the Chicago Tribune Tower Competition, where his design proposal followed a Doric column as the building's top
Adolf Loos
This Austrian architect used his volumes to create a classical tripartite façade for the Steiner House by creating a recess between the two wings of the house that continues straight to the roof
Peter Zumthor
This Swiss architect analyzed architectural environments and surrounding objects in his book Atmospheres
Peter Zumthor
This Swiss architect and Louise Bourgeois paid tributed to the victims of the witch trials in the Varanger Peninsula with Vardø's Steilneset Memorial
Peter Zumthor
This Swiss architect collaborated with Louise Bourgeois to design the Steilneset Memorial in Vardø commemorating the trial and execution in 1621 of 91 people for witchcraft
Peter Zumthor
This Swiss architect curated the Dear to Me exhibition marking the twentieth anniversary of his design for the Kunsthaus Bregenz overlooking Lake Constance in Austria
Peter Zumthor
This Swiss architect designed a 410-foot-long wooden structure framing a fabric cocoon while Louise Bourgeois designed a cubic smoked glass room with a 39-foot-long square roof for Vardø's Steilneset Memorial
Peter Zumthor
This Swiss architect designed the 7132 Thermal Baths hotel and spa complex to be built over the only hot spring in Switzerland's Graubünden canton
Peter Zumthor
This Swiss architect designed the Kunsthaus Bregenz art gallery, a shimmering glass and concrete cube overlooking Lake Constance in Austria
Peter Zumthor
This Swiss architect designed the Kunsthaus Bregenz art gallery, while lies adjacent to the Vorarlberger Landestheater and vorarlberg museum overlooking Lake Constance
Peter Zumthor
This Swiss architect designed the Therme Vals hotel and spa complex to resemble a stone quarry consisting of thin cantilevered horizontal gray stone layers five meters apart
Peter Zumthor
This Swiss architect expressed his motivation to design buildings that have emotional connections and possess a powerful and unmistakable presence and personality in his book Thinking Architecture
Peter Zumthor
This Swiss architect won a competition to design a museum and documentation center on the horrors of Nazism to be built on the site of the Gestapo headquarters in Berlin called the Topography of Terror
Peter Zumthor
This Swiss architect's design for the Kolumba Diocesan Museum in Cologne is located on the site of the former St. Kolumba church, which was replaced by Gottfried Böhm's Madonna of the Ruins chapel after World War II
Paul Engelmann
This Viennese architect designed and built Haus Wittgenstein with Ludwig Wittgenstein, which was dubbed "a dwelling for the gods" by his sister Hermine and currently houses the cultural department of the Bulgarian embassy
Paul Engelmann
This Viennese architect designed and built Haus Wittgenstein with Ludwig Wittgenstein, who designed 140-kilogram metal window screens which could be lowered with a pulley
Paul Engelmann
This Viennese architect designed and built Haus Wittgenstein with Ludwig Wittgenstein, who insisted on having the ceiling raised thirty millimeters so that the room had the exact proportions he wanted
Paul Engelmann
This Viennese architect designed and built Haus Wittgenstein with Ludwig Wittgenstein, who spent over a year designing unpainted radiators and door handles
Paul Engelmann
This Viennese architect who is now best known for his friendship with the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein was commissioned by Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein to design and build a large townhouse in the Kundmanngasse
Paul Engelmann
This Viennese architected designed and built Haus Wittgenstein with Ludwig Wittgenstein, which was saved from demolition by a Bernhard Leitner campaign
