Research into a variety of Architects in relations to my work
This is a compilation of some architects and their works which may bring a form of influence or inspiration in relations to my personal approach to design.
Renaissance architects:
Fillippo Brunelleschi -
From 1377 - 1446, was an architect, engineer and sculptor - who's genius would come to play an important role in the cultural dominance of Florence during the early periods of the Italian Renaissance. His innovative work of constructing the massive dome of Florence Cathedral would be his vital contribution to not just Florentine Renaissance but to Renaissance architecture as a whole.
He would also be the first person to precisely describe "Linear perspective" which would revolutionize painting and art during the renaissance period.
Although work/design for the dome had already been established as early as 1367, he would later assume command and overcome difficult engineering problems by introducing a double shell dome which required a series of ingenious technical innovations to reduce weight and ensure maximum strength. Brunelleschi displayed brilliance in engineering skills and a diligent attention to each detail in construction, which lead to a triumph of every problem that arose in the domes construction.
Dome of the Florence Cathedral - Pazzi Chapel -
Andrea Palladio -
Basing his design off Greek architectural values and Roman architecture as outlined by Vitruvius, he would become one of the giants and main figures of Venetian Renaissance architecture of the 16th century. Best known for his works all located within the Venetian Republic he is regarded as one of the greatest architects in western art history laying out in his treatise, "The four books of Architecture" would have a huge impact on building design throughout Europe and America.
His style which was known to prescribe the greatest precedence towards symmetry, perspective and an overall harmony in building design, would later be known as Palladianism, which was his blend of Greek, Roman and Renaissance art.
His work would later affect the early forms of Neoclassical Architecture and was widely adopted during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Villa Capra - Palazzo del Capitanioli -
Leon Battista Alberti -
The Italian sculptor, painter, writer and architect was the most important art theorist of the early Renaissance. This was mainly due to his three influential treatise on Renaissance art, providing Florence with its first scientifically based foundation of art and art history in its Renaissance period. He intimately acquainted with the most important old masters, humanists, popes and regents of his time period and his work was influenced by Filippo Brunelleschi his elder contemporary.
His architectural style and leanings were theorized in his treatise De Re Aedificatoria (On Architecture), where he drew upon De Architectura by Vitruvius the ancient Roman Architect and first hand antiquarian knowledge of Classical remains. He also elaborated a clearer theory of architectural beauty fixated upon a harmonic composition between certain fixed proportions, mitigated by ornamental forms.
His work on the completion of the church of S. Maria Novella in Florence where he developed an eloquently structured classical facade working within the traditional Tuscan formal repertoire dictated by the existing building. Appearing as an aesthetic whole and not as a compromise, would prove his architectural design to be genius.
Basilica of Santa Maria Novella - Basilica of Saint Andrea -
Guiseppe Mengoni -
1829 - 1877, He was an Italian Renaissance revival architect who the designed the Palazzo della Cassa di Risparmio (1868–76) and the classical arcades of the Campo Santo (1860's) both in Bologna. His most famous work is the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, Milan (1861–77), one of the largest and most impressive iron and glass covered arcades making a cruciform shape.
I believe this brings the outside in or intertwines the building with nature which is also an influence to my building design of using glass and brass for its roof.
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele -
Beaux art architects:
Victor Laloux -
A French Beaux art architect and teacher, he was awarded the annual Prix de Rome in 1878 and would further his study at the Villa de Medici in Rome from 1879 through 1882. An eclectic architect by nature he would create deeply ornamented neoclassical designs working with sculptors and muralists in the Beaux art style, doing so with innovative cast iron and metal framing allowing higher interior spaces ansd glass roofs.
His works and masterpieces a profusion of stone, staff and ornamental cast iron, notable the Osray station in Paris 1898, with its decor mingled in an opulent eclecticism all the styles of French classicism would greatly influence the architecture of American stations in the 1900's.
As professor he woul go on to train 600 students of which 132 were American and would be the most successful teacher at the École des Beaux-Arts training 16 winners of the annual Prix de Rome.
Musée d'Orsay - Basilica of St. Martin -
Henri Labrouste -
A highly influential architect and recognized as one of the most important French architect of the 19th century was an known for his structures which harnessed emptiness and light. He was also an architect from the famous École des Beaux-Arts school of Architecture and would win the annual Prix de Rome in 1824 for his design for a court of appeals building.
He would combibne rationalism, light and classical influences to create his own architectural language. He was noted for his experimentation with new materials and light, namely wroth and cast iron and was the first to recognize their importance in buildings, such as the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève and the reading room of the Bibliothèque Nationale.
His work has been highly influential and his architectural innovations repeatedly redefined recognizing him as an architect of truth. Influencing innumerable styles, schools, and individual constructions, including Neoclassical forms, the Gothic Revival in France also in the works of Louis Sullivan ‘the father of skyscrapers’, in the United States, and even in the use of reinforced concrete.
Bibliothèque Nationale - Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève -
Loen Vaudoyer -
A French romantic Beaux art architect along side Felix Duban, Henri Labrouste, and Louis Duc, who challenged the authority and philosophy of the French Academy in the 1830's to create a new architectural language.
He won the annual Prix de Rome in 1826.
Cathédrale Sainte-Marie-Majeure -
Eclecticism architects:
Josef Hlavka -
Remembered as one of the successful architects and builders of the 1860's in Vienna he was also a politician and the greatest Czech philanthropist establishing a foundation in support of art, education and science which is still active today.
He and his colleagues designed and built about 150 buildings including the Vienna opera, built at the behest of Emperor Franz Joseph I. His most impressive building in Prague is the Neo-Gothic maternity hospital, which serves its purpose to this day, and many others built in the eclectic mannerism.
Residence of Bukovinian and Armenian church in Chernivtsi, Ukraine -
Dalmatian Metropolitans -
Arthur Benison Hubback -
A British architect and soldier who designed many sumptuous and important buildings in British Malaysia, incorporating both Indo-Saracenic architecture and European wrenaissance styles or Edwardian architecture.
From Hubback’s drawing board, elements of Arabesque merged with fine Indian detail in the State Secretariat building, or Sultan Abdul Samad as it is known today; classic European design were thrust to a whole new height of style with Mughal inspirations like works, the Ipoh Railway Station and Hotel; and Tudor architecture was transformed with traditional Malay aesthetics.
Kuala Lumpur railway station -
Antoni Gaudi -
A Catalan Genius architect who would become internationally recognized as one of the top most experts of his profession, his eclectic mannerism would make him the inventor of a unique and personal architectural language that is in its own class serving a weighty testament to modernism.
Gaudi would incorporate several art and architectural styles inspired from India, Persia, Japan and Islamic-Hispanic art and also his eclectic Neo-Gothic style inspired by medieval art but having his own impressions on it. Guadi would later transpose this style with his naturalistic views which he always had from the inspiration of organic shapes of nature.
Palace of Gaudi Astorga - Casa Vicens Gaudi -
Art Deco architects:
Ernest Cormier -
One of Canada's most renowned architects of the 20th century, he trained at the École des Beaux-Arts creating his own innovative architectural language and meticulously mastering entire design processes down to minute details. He would become a notable figure of Montreal's cultural and intellectual avant-garde for his Art Deco style.
Notable examples of his Art Deco architecture his home, the Cormier house which is regarded as one of the best Art Deco buildings in Canada, and the Supreme Court of Canada Building in Ottawa. His most notable accomplishment was the Roger Gaudry building.
Supreme Court of Canada Building - Roger Gaudry Building -
Raymond Hood -
An american architect who trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was recognized for his for his skyscraper designs in New York city and Chicago. He designed buildings in a Neo Gothic and Art Deco style in his own mannerism.
His best know work is his revolutionary piece, the American Radiator building which was lauded for its use of black brick and its gold dipped finial, and his previous design for the Chicago Tribune Tower would prove him to be a preeminent architect of his age.
Tribune Tower Chicago - American Radiator Building -
Writ C. Rowland -
He was an American architect best known for his work in Detroit, he drafted and designed an impressive range of building types and architectural types from working with four of the cities most important architectural firms and his contribution to the Art Deco skyline to Detroit's skyline.
His personal design language was an amalgamation of Neo Gothic somewhat Romanesque style with Art Deco. These can be seen in his Buhl Building and Guardian Building both in Detroit.
Guardian Building Detroit - Penobscot Building Detroit -
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