Female Designers & Architects
___________ (December 15, 1912 – August 21, 1988) She was an American artist, designer, and filmmaker. Many of her co-designs are used in films 1
Ray-Bernice Alexandra Kaiser Eames
_________believes that architecture is the art and science of making sure our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives. 6
Bjarke Ingels
__________a style in art and especially architecture using exaggeration and distortion to create its effect (as of massiveness or power) 11
Brutalism
Trends include Art Moderne and the Bauhaus school coined by Walter Gropius, Deconstructivism, Formalism, Modernism, and Structuralism. 16
Modernist Styles in Architecture
432 Park Avenue 2015
New York, New York 21
by Rafael Viñoly (New York)
_________ was an Anglo-Irish architect and furniture designer and a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture 2
Eileen Gray
________ is a French architect. Nouvel studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was a founding member of Mars 1976 and Syndicat de l'Architecture. 7
Jean Nouvel
A _________ is a protruding volume or beam that is attached to a structure at only one end. They have been widely used in bridge construction for hundreds of years, but contemporary buildings incorporate them in various ways. 12
Cantilever
1972 to Present.
reaction against the Modernist approaches gave rise to new buildings that re-invented historical details and familiar motifs. Ideas that date back to classical and ancient times. 17
Postmodernism in Architecture
Apple Park (2017) by Foster + Partners (Cupertino, California) 22
by Foster + Partners
_________ is a Japanese architect. She is known for designs with clean modernist elements such as shiny surfaces, squares and cubes. 3
Kazuyo Sejima
____________(born 1949, Halifax, England) is a British architectural designer whose work is known for its minimalist aesthetic. 8
John Ward Pawson CBE
________ are supports that lift a building above the ground or a body of water. They are similar in nature to to stilts, piers, columns, pillars, posts and so on. In timber form, they were traditionally used in the vernacular architecture of Asia and Scandinavia, or wherever indigenous peoples lived at a water's edge. 13
Pilotis
1925 to 1937 AD
Zigzag patterns and vertical lines create dramatic effect on jazz-age
many motifs were inspired by the architecture of ancient Egypt. 18
Art Deco Architecture
National Museum of Qatar (Doha, Qatar)(2019) 23
by Jean Nouvel
Israeli designer and professor at the MIT Media Lab, where she ... Her work embodies environmental design and digital morphogenesis, with shapes and properties that are determined by their context. ... and in 2020 a major retrospective of _________ work opened at the Museum of Modern Art. 4
Neri Oxman
is an independent architectural firm based in Norway and Denmark with a high level of expertise and a distinct ideology. 9
Reiulf Ramstad
__________are areas of an architectural plan or section that are filled in, often by cross-hatching or solid black, to show wall thicknesses, floor thicknesses and all other solid areas that intersect the plane of the section cut. 14
Poché
1650 to 1790 AD
The last phase of the Baroque period.
Builders constructed graceful white buildings with sweeping curves.
Rococo buildings are elegantly decorated with scrolls, vines, shell-shapes, and delicate geometric patterns. 19
Rococo Architecture
Elbphilharmonie Hamburg (2017) 24
Herzog & de Meuron (Hamburg)
__________ (December 4, 1914 – March 20, 1992) was one of the most important and expressive architects of 20th century Brazilian ... 5
Lina Bo Bardi
_________ OBE is an award winning Ghanaian-British architect known to infuse his artistic sensibilities and ethos for community-driven projects. 10
Sir David Adjaye OBE
The concept of the _______ has also become meaningful in the psychogeography of architecture and urban planning, describing people who are indirectly and (usually) unintentionally affected by a particular design they experience only in passing. 15
Flâneur
527 to 565 AD.
The capital of the Roman empire moved to Byzantium (now called Istanbul) in 330 AD
Roman architecture evolved into a graceful, classically-inspired style Used brick instead of stone, domed roofs, elaborate mosaics, and classical forms
Emperor Justinian (527 AD to 565 AD) led the way. 20
Byzantine
UNIC 25
MAD Architects (Paris)