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Famous architects like Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Antoni Gaudí developed innovative architectural styles that influenced buildings worldwide. Mies pioneered modernist architecture and headed the Bauhaus school before emigrating to the US. Wright designed over 1000 structures promoting organic architecture like Fallingwater. Gaudí's highly individualized works in Barcelona, especially the Sagrada Família church, blended architecture with nature. Some of the most famous architectural buildings include the Colosseum, Burj Khalifa, Taj Mahal, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Eiffel Tower, and Sydney Opera House.

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Famous architects like Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Antoni Gaudí developed innovative architectural styles that influenced buildings worldwide. Mies pioneered modernist architecture and headed the Bauhaus school before emigrating to the US. Wright designed over 1000 structures promoting organic architecture like Fallingwater. Gaudí's highly individualized works in Barcelona, especially the Sagrada Família church, blended architecture with nature. Some of the most famous architectural buildings include the Colosseum, Burj Khalifa, Taj Mahal, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Eiffel Tower, and Sydney Opera House.

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Famous Architects

Presented by Moisescu Cristian-Andrei


What is the architecture?
• Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with
construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing
buildings or other structures. The term comes from Latin architectura; from Ancient Greek “ἀρχιτέκτων”
(arkhitéktōn) 'architect'; from “ἀρχι”- (arkhi-) 'chief', and “τέκτων” (téktōn) 'creator’.
• Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art.
Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements.
• The practice, which began in the prehistoric era, has been used as a way of expressing culture for civilizations on all
seven continents. For this reason, architecture is considered to be a form of art. Texts on architecture have been
written since ancient times. The earliest surviving text on architectural theories is the 1st century AD treatise “De
architectura” by the Roman architect Vitruvius, according to whom a good building embodies firmitas, utilitas, and
venustas (durability, utility, and beauty). Centuries later, Leon Battista Alberti developed his ideas further, seeing
beauty as an objective quality of buildings to be found in their proportions.
• Giorgio Vasari wrote Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects and put forward the idea of
style in the Western arts in the 16th century. In the 19th century, Louis Sullivan declared that "form follows
function". "Function" began to replace the classical "utility" and was understood to include not only practical but
also aesthetic, psychological and cultural dimensions. The idea of sustainable architecture was introduced in the
late 20th century.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a German-American architect.
• He was commonly referred to as Mies, his surname. Along with
Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright,
he is regarded as one of the pioneers of modernist architecture.
• In the 1930s, Mies was the last director of the Bauhaus, a ground-
breaking school of modernist art, design and architecture.
• After Nazism's rise to power, with its strong opposition to
modernism (leading to the closing of the Bauhaus itself), Mies
emigrated to the United States. He accepted the position to head
the architecture school at what is today the Illinois Institute of
Technology in Chicago.

Source : (https://en.wikipedia.org/)

Seagram Building
Frank Lloyd Wright
• Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, designer, writer, and
educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period
of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements of
the twentieth century, influencing architects worldwide through his
works and hundreds of apprentices in his Taliesin Fellowship.
• Wright believed in designing in harmony with humanity and the
environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This
philosophy was exemplified in Fallingwater (1935), which has been
called "the best all-time work of American architecture". Fallingwater, Mill Run,
• Wright was the pioneer of what came to be called the Prairie School Pennsylvania (1937)
movement of architecture and also developed the concept of the
Usonian home in Broadacre City, his vision for urban planning in the
United States. He also designed original and innovative offices, churches,
schools, skyscrapers, hotels, museums, and other commercial projects.
• He wrote several books and numerous articles and was a popular
lecturer in the United States and in Europe.

Source : (https://en.wikipedia.org/) Hillside Home School, Taliesin,


Spring Green, Wisconsin (1902)
Antoni Gaudí
• Antoni Gaudí was a Catalan architect from Spain known as the greatest
exponent of Catalan Modernism. Gaudí's works have a highly individualized.
Most are located in Barcelona, including his main work, the church of the
Sagrada Família.
• Gaudí's work was influenced by his passions in life: architecture, nature, and
religion. He considered every detail of his creations and integrated into his
architecture such crafts as ceramics, stained glass, wrought ironwork forging
and carpentry. He also introduced new techniques in the treatment of
materials, such as “trencadís” which used waste ceramic pieces.
• Under the influence of neo-Gothic art and Oriental techniques, Gaudí
became part of the Modernista movement which was reaching its peak in
the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work transcended mainstream
Modernisme, culminating in an organic style inspired by natural forms. Gaudí
rarely drew detailed plans of his works, instead preferring to create them as
three-dimensional scale models and moulding the details as he conceived
them.
• Gaudí's work enjoys global popularity and continuing admiration and study
by architects. His masterpiece, the still-incomplete Sagrada Família, is the
most-visited monument in Spain. Sagrada Familia
Source : (https://en.wikipedia.org/)
Most famous architectural buildings

Colosseum

Burj Khalifa Taj Mahal


The Leaning Eiffel Tower
Tower of Pisa

Sydney Opera House

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