Raphael S. Soriano, (August 1, 1904 – July 21, 1988) was born in Rhodos, Greece. He emigrated to the US in 1924 and graduated in 1934 in architecture. He worked for…
Gustav Lindenthal (May 21, 1850 – July 31, 1935) was a civil engineer who designed the Hell Gate Bridge in New York City, among other bridges. While living in Vienna,…
Olivier Strebelle was born on 20 January 1927 in Uccle to an artistic family. In 2001, on the occasion of the major open-air exhibition in Paris, the press called him…
Santiago Calatrava Valls is particularly known for his bridges supported by single leaning pylons, and his railway stations, stadiums, and museums, whose sculptural forms often resemble living organisms. Often referred…
The Vizcaya Bridge is a transporter bridge that links the towns of Portugalete and Las Arenas in the Biscay province of Spain, crossing the mouth of the Nervion River. It…
Eduardo Souto de Moura (°Porto, 25 July 1952), is a Portuguese architect, who received the Pritzker Prize in 2011. Souto de Moura studied sculpture before switching to architecture at the…
Glenn Marcus Murcutt (born 25 July 1936) is an Australian architect and winner of the 2002 Pritzker Architecture Prize. He works as a sole practitioner without staff, builds only within Australia…
Werner Sobek was born 1953 in Aalen, Germany. From 1974 to 1980, he studied structural engineering and architecture at the University of Stuttgart. In 1992 he founded his own company.…
Japanese architect Arata Isozaki won the Pritzker Prize in 2019, the most highly regarded award in the world of architecture. Since the 60’s, Isozaki has been showing outstanding innovative ideas…