Showing posts with label England. Show all posts
Showing posts with label England. Show all posts

Zaha Hadid (1950) Architect

Landscape Formation One in Basel
Zaha Hadid is a British architect. She was born in Baghdad (now Lady Hadid) and is of Iraqi origin. She studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London. After her studies she worked at OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture), a renowned office of architects founded by Rem Koolhaas.

Main achievements
Landscape Formation One in Basel.
Fire Service Building of the Vitra Museum in Basel.
London Aquatics Centre.
Fire Service building at the Vitra Museum in Basel



Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953) Architect

Erich Mendelsohn was an architect born in Germany. He was a representative of the expressionist architecture. He realized many cinemas, shops and factories. In 1935 he went to Palestine and realized important buildings. In 1938 he moved to England and became English citizen. At the beginning of World War II, he settled in the United States where he built a number of Synagogues and Churches.

Main achievements
Einstein Tower observatory in Potsdam (1921).
Spinning in Luckenwalde (1921).
Hebrew University in Palestine.
Medical Center in Palestine.
De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea, along with Chermayeff.
Maimonides Hospital in San Francisco.
Park Synagogue in Cleveland.

Edward Maufe (1883-1974) Architect

Edward Maufe was an English architect. In 1944, Edward was awarded the Royal Gold Medal for architecture. He designed many new churches in the new-Gothic style. Besides churches, schools and public buildings, he realized ordinary houses.

Main achievements
Cathedral in Guildford (1938).
All Saint's Church in Western Green.
Surrey Church in Hanwell.
Church of St. Thomas the Apostle in Hanwell.
Trinitiy College.
St. John's College.
Festival Theatre in Cambridge.
St. John's College, Oxford.

Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) Architect

Edwin Lutyens was an English architect. His work stood out from the artistic application of the classical style. He started as an architect of residence, but later on he built town houses and in the period between the first and tweed world war many bank buildings. Along with Gertrude Jekell he did the landscaping revive. After the first world war, he was responsible for the design of a number of war memorials.

Main achievements
Crooksbury Heathcote (1890).
Ilkley in Yorkshire (1906).
Brittannic House Bank.
Finsbury Circus in London (1926-1929).
Midland Bank building.
Gladstone Hall in Yorkshire, built according to the English tradition.
Middleton Park Oxfshire, built according to the English tradition.
Government Buildings in New Delhi (1930).
Cenotaaph in Whitehall, War Memorial of the First World War.

Thomas Arthur Lodge (1888-1967) Architect

Thomas Lodge was an English architect. He was from 1922 part of the architects 'Lanchester and Lodge'. Besides many schools and homes he built many important buildings.

Main achievements
University building in Leeds, this modern style with a tower in the middle and a large library (Brotherton Library).
Buildings University of Oxford,
University Buildings Cambridge
Buildings University of Sheffield
University Buildings of Belfast.
St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London
Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.
Palace of Rajah of Jodhpur.

Thomas Cecil Howitt (1889-1968) Architect

Thomas Howitt was an English architect who built in modern style.

Main achievements
City Hall in Nottingham (1920).
Civic Centre in Birmingham (1935).
Civic Centre in Newport (1936).
Cinema Theatre in Weston-super-Mare.
Cinema Theatre in Bristol.

Frederick Gibberd (1908-1984) Architect

Frederick Gibberd was an English architect. He's best known by his modern condominiums. He designed numerous homes, hospitals and schools. He was allso one of the first to use prefabrication.

Main buildings
Pullman Cournt apartment building in London (1931).
Ellington Court Apartment building in Southgate (1937).
Shacklewell Road colony in London (after WWII).

Edwin Maxwell Fry (1899-1987) architect

Edwin Maxwell Fry was an English architect and supporter of modern architecture. He built many sunny country houses and several flats, showrooms, hospitals.

Main buildings
Sun House in Hampstead (1938).
Electriciteits Central London.
Village School in Impington, Cambridgeshire, along with Walter Gropius.
Children's homes on the Gold Coast in Nigeria.

Sergius Ivan Chermayeff (1900) Architect

Ivan Chermayeff was an architect born in Russia and later worked in England. From 1946 to 1951 he was director of the Institute of Design in Chicago. He designed many office and exhibition buildings.

Most famous realizations
Office and factory buildings for Gilbey's in Camden Town.
B.B.C Studio.
De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea (1935) togheter with Eric Mendelsohn.

Richard Rogers (architect) short biography

Daimler Chrysler Building
by Arch. Richard Rogers
British architect Richard George Rogers was born in 1933 in Florence, Italy. In 1938 he migrated with his family to the UK. He went from 1951 to 1953 at the Architectural Association School in London and received his degree in Architecture. During the years '61 -'62 he studied at Yale University in the School of Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut. In '62 he obtained his Master of Architecture degree. When he came back from America he worked from 1965-1968 at Team 4, an architectural firm with Norman and Wendy Foster and his wife Su Rogers. Hereafter Richard Roger teamed up with Renzo Piano (1971 to 1977). With Renzo he realized projects such as the Centre Pompidou (also called the Palais Beaubourg) in Paris.

The structural components, the technical provisions and the opening of Centre Pompidou are arranged on the outside and painted in bright colors.

These architectural features are reflected in Lloyd's headquarters in London (1978-1986), which consists of several office towers that enclose a seventy meter high atrium.

After this collaboration Richard Rogers Partner Ship was founded. Rogers believes that if an organization wants to achieve success, the organization must have an open mind for change. In the years after Lloyd's RRP Richard went through an evolution. They went expand their clientele base. Past successes made of RRP a contender in major public projects: the Tokyo Forum, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and the new court in Bordeaux for example.

At the same time, the firm turned to the changing world of commercial architecture. The gap between commercial and 'good' architecture was smaller. Rogers thinks that the British architecture after the war, didn't lost the essence of the architecture, it came aesthetic deficiency but the project lost its impact on people and environment.

Richard Rogers don't want to be associated with high-tech. This is to avoid being pigeonholed.

High-tech is an attempt to technological spirit of early modernism to re-ignite. In other words, modern architecture should reflect the technology of an era. It is based on modernism, but defects such as drafts and overexposure are extracted. Besides looks and style that only mattered to the modernists, comfort is also not forgotten.

His later projects such as the renovation of the Billingsgate Fish Market in London to offices (1986-1989) and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (Strasbourg, 1989 ff.), Have a less aggressive look than his early work.

In 1999, in the French city of Bordeaux the robust courthouse is ready. Large areas colorless glass give the building a democratic character, but they are only one element in a variety of building materials. The huge, undulating metal roof, the huge wood-clad conical courtrooms, and in particular the all Exposed construction are more decisive image.

Rogers also designed the Millennium Dome in Greenwich, with a domed roof an area of 100 000 m² spans.

John Belcher (1841-1913) Architect

John Belcher was an English architect who designed some great shops, office buildings, churches and town houses in a late Renaissance style.

Best known realizations
Holy Trinity Church, Kingsway, England (1909)
The Church of Maida Vale
Colchester Town Hall (1898)
Cambridge City Hall
Electra House Finsbury (1900)
Warehouses Whiteley, Bayswater (London)
Building for the Royal Insurance in Piccadilly, London
Building for the Royal Society of Medicine in London (1910)

Penberthy Thomas Bennett (1887) Architect

Thomas Bennett was an English Modernist Architect. He designed stores, apartment buildings, theaters, banks and homes.

Most famous realizations
Dorset House in London.
John Barne's Stores, shop building with flats in Hampstead.