Famous Architects Flashcards
Best known for his use of inexpensive materials and unfinished style for his eccentric buildings and both of his parents were art lovers
Frank Gehry
What year did Gehry received his degree in Architecture from USC?
1954
When did Gehry redesigned his private residence in Santa Monica, C.A., USA?
1978
What year did Gehry received a Pritzker Prize?
1989
What year did Gehry received Wolf Prize in Art and Imperial Award in Architecture?
1992
He was the first recipient of the Lillian Gish Award in 1994.
Frank Gehry
When was the completion and opening of the new Guggenheim Museum in Spain (archi: Frank Gehry)?
1997
In what year did they unveil the finished Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA (archi: Gehry)?
2003
What are Gehry’s notable works?
Vitra Wiggle Chair Gehry Residence (Santa Monica) Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain—1997) Walt Disney Concert Hall (LA) Beekman Tower (New York, USA—2011) Brentwood Collection
Who is the most prominent contemporary female architect?
Zaha Hadid
Known for her radical deconstructivism design; her style includes fragmentation, instability, and movement; inspired by Kazimir Malevich and supermatists art style movement
Zaha Hadid
When did Hadid’s interest in architecture started?
When they went to ancient Sumer Region in Southern Iraq
When did Hadid join the Metropolitan Architects?
1977
When did Hadid started her own architecture firm—Zaha Hadid Architects?
1980
When did Hadid receive her first award—Gold Medal Architectural Design for her British Architecture?
1982
In 2004, what did Hadid receive?
First woman and one of the youngest Pritzker Prize awardee
In what year did Zaha Hadid’s design for the Olympic Aquatic Center for the 2012 Olympic games?
2005
What was the only government building Hadid designed in 2016?
Port Authority (Antwerp, Belgium)
What were Hadid’s notable works?
Vitra Fire Station (West Rhein, Germany—1989-1993)
Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art (2003)
Olympic Aquatic Center (London, UK—2012)
Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center (Baku, Azerbaijan)
Jockey Club Innovation Tower (Hong Kong—2007-2014)
An architect, a painter, a designer urbanist of the most genial ones of all time
Le CORBUSIER
What is the full name of Le Corbusier?
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret
At what age did Le Corbusier joined the local school of art?
14
What year did Le Corbusier have a an architecture project with his archi teacher—René Chapallaz?
1907-1908 (Paris)
What are Le Corbusier’s notable works?
House Dom-ino (1914)
—influencer: Cubism and Purism
Villa Savoye, Poissy (1928-1931)
—glass house
Recipient of Pritzker Prize in 1995; he is into woodcrafts inhis esrly childhood; he had a brief stint as a boxer; he began his self-education by being an apprentice; his influence include Le Corbusier
Tadao Ando
What are Tadao Ando’s notble works?
Church of the Light (Osaka) Liangzhou Village (China) Hansel Museum (Korea)
Known as modernist and notable for simple geometry; uninspired by the Beaux-Arts trad; Chinese-American archi; worked with Walter Gropins
I.M Pei
What is the full na,e lf I.M. Pei?
Ieoh Ming Pei
In what year did I.M. Pei receive his Bachelor’s degree?
1940
What are Pei’s notable works?
Le grand Louvre
Bank of Hong Kong
JFK Library
Museum of Islamic Art
Who are the famous architects tackled?
Frank Gehry Zaha Hadid Le Corbusier Tadao Ando I.M. Pei Herzog & de Meuron
When was the Maxxi building awarded the Stirling prize? (Zaha Hadid)
2010
What did the Heyday Aliyev Cultural Center won in 2014?
Design Museum Design of the Year Award
What was given to Zaha Hadid in 2012?
Honor of Dame Commander of the order of the British Empire
Who said this: “In all my works, light is an important controlling factor”?
Tadao Ando
When did Frank Gehry established his own firm, Gehry Associate (now Gehry Partners, LLP)?
1962
