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Daniel Libeskind
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am

Daniel Libeskind (Born: May 12, 1946 in Łódź, Poland) is a Jewish American architect, who has designed many prominent and celebrated buildings. They include the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, the Denver Art Museum in the United States, the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester, United Kingdom, the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada, the Felix Nussbaum House in Osnabrück, Germany, the Jewish Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, the Wohl Centre at the Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv, Israel, as well as many more commercial and residential projects around the world. In 2003, Libeskind won the competition for the masterplan to rebuild the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan.

Erich Mendelsohn
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Erich Mendelsohn (March 21, 1887 – September 15, 1953) was a German Jewish architect, known for his expressionist buildings in the 1920s, the first in the style, as well as for developing a dynamic functionalism in his projects for department stores and cinemas.
Frank Gehry
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am

Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, February 28, 1929) is a Pritzker Prize winning architect based in Los Angeles, California.

His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. Many museums, companies, and cities seek Gehry's services as a badge of distinction, beyond the product he delivers.

His best known works include the titanium-covered Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles, Dancing House in Prague, Czech Republic, and his private residence in Santa Monica, California, which jump-started his career, lifting it from the status of "paper architecture", a phenomenon which many famous architects have experienced in their formative decades through experimentation almost exclusively on paper before receiving their first major commission in later years.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser (born Friedrich Stowasser, December 15, 1928 – February 19, 2000) was an Austrian painter, and sculptor. By the end of the 20th century, he was arguably the best-known contemporary Austrian artist, though he was always controversial.
Gordon Bunshaft
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Gordon Bunshaft (May 9, 1909 – August 6, 1990) Leading architect for Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill during their glory days, Bunshaft designed the Lever building in New York as well as the Albert-Knox museum in Buffalo and the Hirshorn museum in Washington D.C. The Lever Bldg. is considered one of the great masterpieces of modern design and it established the International Style in NY
Max Frisch
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Max Frisch (May 15, 1911 – April 4, 1991) was a Swiss architect, playwright and novelist, regarded as highly representative of German literature after World War II. In his creative works Frisch paid particular attention to issues relating to problems of human identity, individuality, responsibility, morality and political commitment. His use of irony is a significant feature of his post-war publications. Frisch was a member of the Gruppe Olten.
Dankmar Adler (July 3, 1844 – April 16, 1900)
Friday, Dec 31, 1999, 07:00pm
Dankmar Adler was Louis Sullivan's partner and one of the pioneers in developing the modern skyscraper. Adler and Sullivan are considered among the greatest architects of the late 19th century. The Auditorium building and the Carson department store in Chicago are among their masterpieces. Frank Lloyd Wright was among their pupils and refered to Adler as "Liebe Meister".
Louis Kahn
Friday, Dec 31, 1999, 07:00pm
Louis Isadore Kahn (born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky) (February 20, 1901 or 1902 – March 17, 1974) was a world-renowned architect based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After working in various capacities for several firms in Philadelphia, he founded his own firm in 1935. While continuing his private practice he served as a design critic and professor of architecture at Yale School of Architecture from 1947 to 1957. From 1957 until his death he was a professor of architecture at the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. Influenced by ancient ruins, Kahn's style tends to the monumental and monolithic, heavy buildings that neither hide their weight, their materials, nor the way they are assembled.
Marcel Lajos Breuer
Friday, Dec 31, 1999, 07:00pm

Marcel Lajos Breuer (May 21, 1902 – July 1, 1981) architect and furniture designer, was an influential Hungarian-born modernist of Jewish descent. One of the fathers of Modernism, Breuer showed a great interest in modular construction and simple forms.

Known as Lajkó, Breuer studied and taught at the Bauhaus in the 1920s, stressing the combination of art and technology, and eventually became the head of the school's cabinet-making shop. He later practiced in Berlin, designing houses and commercial spaces, as well as a number of tubular metal furniture pieces, replicas of which are still in production today.



 
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