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Oscar Niemeyer, Brasil - 1988
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Oscar Niemeyer was born in 1907 in the hillside district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts there. Niemeyer’s architecture, conceived as lyrical sculpture, expands on the principles and innovations of Le Corbusier to become a kind of free-form sculpture.
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Alvaro Siza, Portugal - 1992
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Siza, whose full name is Alvaro Joaquim de Meio Siza Vieira, was born on June 25, 1933 in the small coastal town of Matosinhos, just north of Porto, Portugal. Siza studied at the University of Porto School of Architecture from 1949 through 1955, completing his first built works (four houses in Matosinhos) even before ending his studies in 1954. That same year he opened his private practice in Porto.
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Norman Foster, Inglaterra - 1999
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Norman Foster was born in Manchester in 1935. After graduating from Manchester University School of Architecture and City Planning in 1961 he won a Henry Fellowship to Yale University, where he gained a Master’s Degree in Architecture.
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Luis Barragán, México - 1980
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Luis Barragán (1902-1988) was born in Guadalajara, Mexico. His professional training was in engineering, resulting in a degree at the age of twenty-three. His architectural skills were self-taught. In the 1920s, he traveled extensively in France and Spain and, in 1931, lived in Paris for a time, attending Le Corbusier's lectures. His time in Europe, and subsequently in Morroco, stimulated an interest in the native architecture of North Africa and the Mediterranean, which he related to construction in his own country.
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Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron, Suiza - 2001
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Herzog & de Meuron Architekten is a Swiss architecture firm, founded and headquartered in Basel, Switzerland in 1978. The careers of founders and senior partners Jacques Herzog (born 1950), and Pierre de Meuron (born 1950), closely paralleled one another, with both attending the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich. They are perhaps best known for their conversion of the giant Bankside Power Station in London to the new home of the Tate Museum of Modern Art (2000).
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Rafael Moneo, España - 1996
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José Rafael Moneo was born in the small town of Tudela, Navarra, Spain in May of 1937. His mother, Teresa, was the daughter of a magistrate from Aragón. His father, Rafael, whose family roots were in Tudela, worked there all his life as an industrial engineer. He has a sister, Teresa, who studied philosophy and literature. His late brother, Mariano, studied engineering. Moneo confesses that as he grew up, he was first attracted to philosophy and painting; he did not have a clear calling to be an architect, but attributes his inclination toward architecture to his father’s interest in the subject. It was with some difficulty that he left his close family ties in 1954 to go to Madrid to study architecture.
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Rem Koolhaas, Holanda - 2000
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Born in Rotterdam, Rem Koolhaas spent four years of his youth in Indonesia, where his father served as director or a newly formed cultural institute. Following in the footsteps of his literary father, Koolhaas began his career as a writer. He was a journalist for the Haase Post in The Hague, and later tried his hand at writing movie scripts.
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Zaha Hadid, Iran / Inglaterra - 2004
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Born in Baghdad Iraq in 1950, Zaha Hadid commenced her college studies at the American University in Beirut, in the field of mathematics. She moved to London in 1972 to study architecture at the Architectural Association and upon graduation in 1977, she joined the Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). She also taught at the Architectural Association (AA) with OMA collaborators Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis.
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Jean Nouvel, Francia - 2008
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“Since the beginning of his architectural career in the 1970s, Frenchman Jean Nouvel has broken the aesthetic of modernism and post-modernism to create a stylistic language all his own. He places enormous importance on designing a building harmonious with its surroundings,” said Bill Lacy in his book, One Hundred Contemporary Architects.
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Frank Gehry, Canadá / USA - 1989
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Born in Canada in 1929, Gehry is today a naturalized U.S. citizen. In 1954, he graduated from the University of Southern California and began working full time with Victor Gruen Associates, where he had been apprenticing part-time while still in school. After a year in the army, he was admitted to Harvard Graduate School of Design to study urban planning. When he returned to Los Angeles, he briefly worked for Pereira and Luckman, and then rejoined Gruen where he stayed until 1960.
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Richard Meier, USA - 1984
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At 49, Richard Meier was the youngest architect to receive his profession's highest accolade, the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Shortly after receiving that honor, he was awarded what is probably one of the twentieth century's most important commissions, the design of The Getty Center, the Los Angeles art complex funded by the J. Paul Getty Trust.
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Renzo Piano, Italia - 1998
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Renzo Piano, the 1998 Pritzker Prize winner, is perhaps best known for his controversial design of the Centre Georges Pompidou, located in the heart of Paris and completed in 1978. Conceived in collaboration with English architect, Richard Rogers and described by Piano as “a joyful urban machine ... a creature that might have come from a Jules Verne book,” Beaubourg, as it is called, has become a cultural icon, expressive of Piano’s love of technology.
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Peter Zumthor, Suiza - 2009
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Peter Zumthor was born on April 26, 1943, the son of a cabinet maker, Oscar Zumthor, in Basel, Switzerland. He trained as a cabinet maker from 1958 to 1962. From 1963-67, he studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule, Vorkurs and Fachklasse with further studies in design at Pratt Institute in New York.
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Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Brasil - 2006
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Born in Brazil in 1928, Mendes da Rocha began his career in São Paulo in the 1950s as a member of the “Paulist brutalist” avant-garde. He received a degree in architecture in 1954, opened his office in 1955 and soon thereafter created an early masterpiece, the Athletic Club of São Paulo (1957).
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Jorn Utzon, Dinamarca - 2003
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Danish architect Jørn Utzon was born in 1918. While in secondary school, he began helping his father, director of a shipyard in Alborg, Denmark, and brilliant naval architect, by studying new designs, drawing up plans and making models. This activity opened another possibility—that of training to be a naval architect like his father.
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Richard Rogers, Inglaterra - 2007
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Richard Rogers is best known for such pioneering buildings as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the headquarters for Lloyd’s of London, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and the Millennium Dome in London. His practice, Richard Rogers Partnership (RRP), was founded in 1977 and has offices in London, Barcelona, Madrid and Tokyo. RRP has designed two major airport projects—Terminal 5 at London’s Heathrow Airport and the New Area Terminal at Madrid Barajas Airport, as well as high-rise office projects in London, a new law court complex in Antwerp...
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Aldo Rossi, Italia - 1990
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Aldo Rossi (1931-1997) has achieved distinction as a theorist, author, artist, teacher and architect, in his native Italy as well as internationally. Noted critic and historian, Vincent Scully, has compared him to Le Corbusier as a painter-architect. Ada Louise Huxtable, architectural critic and Pritzker juror has described Rossi as "a poet who happens to be an architect."
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Robert Venturi, USA - 1991
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Venturi graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1947 and received his Master of Fine Art degree, also from Princeton, in 1950. He furthered his studies as a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome from 1954 to 1956. Shortly after his return to the United States, he taught an architectural theory course at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Architecture. In the following three decades, he has lectured at numerous institutions including Yale, Princeton, Harvard, University of California at Los Angeles, Rice University and the American Academy in Rome.
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Tadao Ando, Japon - 1995
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Tadao Ando of Osaka, Japan is a man who is at the pinnacle of success in his own country. In the last few years, he has emerged as a cultural force in the world as well. In 1995, the Pritzker Architecture Prize was formally presented to him within the walls of the Grand Trianon Palace at Versailles, France. There is little doubt that anyone in the world of architecture will not be aware of his work. That work, primarily in reinforced concrete, defines spaces in unique new ways that allow constantly changing patterns of light and wind in all his structures, from homes and apartment complexes to places of worship, public museums and commercial shopping centers.
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Kenzo Tange, Japón - 1987
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Kenzo Tange (1913-2005), winner of the 1987 Pritzker Architecture Prize, is one of Japan’s most honored architects. Teacher, writer, architect, and urban planner, he is revered not only for his own work but also for his influence on younger architects. He was born in the small city of Imabari, Shikoku Island, Japan in 1913.
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Christian de Portzamparc, Francia - 1994
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Christian de Portzamparc will be celebrating his fiftieth birthday on May 5 (1994), an anniversary that will be made even more memorable by the fact that he has just been named the 1994 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate. He is the seventeenth person and the sixth European to be so honored since The Hyatt Foundation established the award in 1979.
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Glenn Murcutt, Inglaterra / Australia - 2002
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Glenn Murcutt, the son of Australian parents, was born in London in 1936. He grew up in the Morobe district of New Guinea, where he developed an appreciation for simple, primitive architecture. His father introduced him to the architecture of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and the philosophies of Henry David Thoreau, both of which influenced his architectural style.
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I. M. Pei, China / USA - 1983
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Ieoh Ming Pei’s architecture can be characterized by its faith in modernism, humanized by its subtlety, lyricism, and beauty. Pei was born in Canton China in 1917 and came to the United States in 1935 to study first at the University of Pennsylvania and then at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B. Arch. 1940) and the Harvard Graduate School of Design (M. Arch. 1946).
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Gordon Bunshaft, USA - 1988
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Gordon Bunshaft was born in 1909 in Buffalo, New York. He studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning his bachelor's degree in 1933 and his master's degree in 1935. Bunshaft was awarded both the MIT Honorary Traveling Fellowship and the Rotch Traveling Fellowship, which allowed him to travel in Europe from 1935 until 1937. Upon his return to the United States he took a job in the New York with Edward Durell Stone.
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James Stirling, Inglaterra - 1981
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James Stirling (1926-1992), of Great Britain is considered by many as the premier architect of his generation, an unparalleled innovator in postwar international architecture. Stirling was born in Glasgow in 1926. He was educated at the University of Liverpool School of Architecture and began his own practice in partnership with James Gowan in London in 1956.
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Gottfried Böhm, Alemania - 1986
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Gottfried Böhm was born in Offenbach-am-Main on January 23, 1920, the son of Dominikus Böhm, one of Europe's most respected architects of Roman Catholic churches and ecclesiastical buildings. Since his paternal grandfather had been an architect as well, it is not surprising that Gottfried started on that path.
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Sverre Fehn, Noruega - 1997
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Sverre Fehn (1924-2009) has long been recognized in Europe as one of Norway's most gifted architects. Categorized as a modernist by most architectural writers, Fehn himself says, “I have never thought of myself as modern, but I did absorb the anti-monumental and the pictorial world of LeCorbusier, as well as the functionalism of the small villages of North Africa. You might say I came of age in the shadow of modernism.”
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Hans Hollein, Austria - 1985
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Hans Hollein was born in Vienna, Austria in 1934. From his earliest school days, he manifested a talent for drawing. Although he chose architecture as his profession, his works of art are in many public and private collections around the world.
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Thom Mayne, USA - 2005
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Thom Mayne was born in Westbury, Connecticut in 1944. He lived for part of his childhood in Gary, Indiana. When he was ten, his mother moved the family to Whittier, California. Although he enrolled in California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, he received his bachelor of architecture degree from the University of Southern California in 1968.
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Kevin Roche, Irlanda - 1982
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Born in Dublin, Ireland in 1922, Roche received his undergraduate degree in architecture from the National University of Dublin in 1945. He continued his studies in the United States in 1948 with Mies van der Rohe at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, but left after only one semester. His search for the humanist side of architecture led him to the office Eliel and Eero Saarinen in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. His future partner, John Dinkeloo, joined the firm in 1951, shortly after Roche. From 1954 until Eero Saarinen's death in 1961, Roche was his principal associate in design.
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Philip Johnson, USA - 1979
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Philip Johnson (1906-2005) was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1906, and in the years since has become one of architecture's most potent forces. Before designing his first building at the age of 36, Johnson had been client, critic, author, historian, museum director, but not an architect.
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Fumihiko Maki, Japón - 1993
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Maki, who was born in Tokyo on September 6, 1928, studied with Kenzo Tange at the University of Tokyo where he received his Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1952. Maki then spent the next year at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. After completing a Master of Architecture degree at the Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard University, he apprenticed at the firms Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, New York and Sert Jackson and Associates in Cambridge
Hola voto por Norman Foster, saludos.
Hola Dario, interesante lista. Felicidades por la recomendación.....saludos.
¿Que le pasa a los moderadores de 20 minutos? recomiendan cualquier cosa? además estaría bueno si supiéramos inglés, jajaja
Aclaratoria: mantuve en inglés las reseñas originales para ser lo más fiel posible a los contenidos oficiales del Premio Pritzker - en una futura revisión podría contemplar alguna brevísima traducción, hecha la aclaratoria - saludos (y aprendan inglés, no es que sea necesario: ¡ya resulta indispensable!!!)
HOLA DARIO, y LOS INCAPASES DE APRENDER OTRA LENGUA? JAJAJA, MUY BUENA LISTA, ANDO CON POCO TIEMPO, HAY ARQUITECTOS (LA MAYORIA) QUE NO TENGO REFERENCIAS, ASI QUE VERE LOS ENLACES, LEERE MAS Y LUEGO VOTARE, YO O MI CLON, SI LO TENGO LIBERADO, UN SALUDO, Y ES RARO, SOS UN USARIO CON MUUUUCHOS MESES Y UNA LISTA, POR LO MENOS "RARO". UN SALUDO
muy buena lista.....felicidades x la recomendacion A mi me gusta, Niemeyer, Barragan y Foster
HOLA, AHORA SI DESDE MI USUARIO PRINCIPAL, TE DEJO MIS VOTOS, EL GRAN NIEMEYER, POR OBRA, CONCEPTO Y POSTURA FILOSOFICA. LUEGO, UTZON, PORTZAMPARC, HADID (ME GUSA COMO AMNEJA LOS PLANOS Y EL TRAZO DE LINEAS), MEIER, BARRAGAN, MORENO, PEI, TANGE Y LA SOCIEDAD HERZOG-MEURON. PERO SON TODOS MUY BUENOS, CLARO QUE SE NOTAN LAS DISTINTAS EPOCAS Y MODAS. ADEMAS HAY COSAS QUE ECOLOGICAMENTE HOY NO SE SI SON ACEPTADAS. OTRO SALUDO Y MIS VOTOS. CHAU. TENGO DOS LISTAS DE ESTE RUBRO, SI QUIERES PASAR
Me quedo con nuestro vecino portugués Alvaro Siza. El pabellón de Portugal de la Expo de Lisboa es magnífico. Por cierto, alguien me puede decir cómo añadir una foto a mi perfil? No sé cómo hacerlo, gracias.
Gracias por los comentarios. Si, tengo "muchos meses" como usuario - pero de 20minutos.es. Lo cierto es que las listas nunca me llamaron la atención: es mas, ver muchas de ellas me generó la idea que eran frívolas, sesgadas, mas cercanas al cotilleo que a la divulgacion o la opinion; y no les preste atencion. Claro que con el trabajo en el Blog ArquitecturaS http://ArquitecturaS.wordpress.com tuve algo de "pensamiento lateral" y cai en cuenta que se podia hacer algo serio, de calidad, bien documentado - aqui esta mi primer ejercicio, y puedo decirles que ya estoy delineando el proximo ;-)
pues eso,te dejo mis votos y q sigas haciendo listas como esta
Hola Dario, bueno perdona por mi comentario anterior, no quise decir "cualquier cosa" lo que pasa es que ya estoy tan acostumbrada a ver basuras de listas que ver una lista como la tuya aquí la verdad impresiona un poco, creo que tu lista es demasiado para que la expongas aquí, ya que esto de a poco se está convirtiendo en "una jungla" jajaja creo que aquí ya nada es tomado en serio, espero que puedas comprender lo que quiero decirte...y por el inglés, bueno te haré caso, saludos y suerte!!
Ah y creo que deberías colocar la traducción ...solo es un comentario..
gracias talquina... asi lo hare en lo que tenga un tiempito...
Saludos Dario, en horabuena, vote 5 para todos, excelentes personalidades, FOSTER mi favorito.
Gracias a todos por vuestros comentarios, aportes y particiación. Ayer Peter Zumthor recibió el premio Pritzker de Arquitectura 2009 en Buenos Aires, http://arquitecturas.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/entregan-hoy-el-premio-pritzker-lanacion-com/ ahora les propongo un ejercicio de anticipación con fuerte dosis de clarividencia ¿quien podría ser el galardonado del 2010?
Zaha Hadid es la que ha proyectado la nueva Biblioteca del Prado de Sevilla, pero cuenta con la oposición de los vecinos, y el proyecto es bastante feo.
HOLA DARIO, NI ME ATREVO A TAL DESAFIO, LOS CRITERIOS DE SELECCION SON MUY CRIPTICOS, UN SALUDO
Linda lista *
Es que no hay criterio de seleccion alguno salvo tus preferencias: sin dar nombres, hay arquitectos cuyas obras no entiendo, y otros que cuanto mas observo o visito sus trabajos, más admiro ;-)
Sobre la paralización de la obra de Zaha Hadid que oportunamente comenta MJD, amplia cobertura en el Blog ArquitecturaS http://tinyurl.com/mmtpg8
hola mi voto es para rem koolhaas COMO ARQUITECTO es una eminencia
deberias poner la explicacion esn castellano para que la entendamos todos
pasaros por mi lista para elegir la mejor cancion de los 80! cada usuario podreis apuntaros con dos!