Louis Kahn (1901-1974) Architect

Parliament of Bangladesh

Louis Kahn was an American architect with a Russian descent. He worked from 1941 with George Howe. From 1942 he also worked with Stonorow called Howe Stonorow and Kahn. Khan himself has had a major influence on the international architecture. Most of his designs have a ruin-like and monolithic appearance. His buildings are often quite monumental because many of the buildings should reinforce an established value as sick houses, parliament buildings and universities. The structures of his buildings are often very clearly visible.

Main achievements
Carver Court, along with George Howe and Stonorow.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven (1951).
Trenton Bathhouse in New Jersey (1954).
Richards Medical Research Laboratories at the Univeristeit of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (1957).
Salk Institute in La Jolla, Canada (1959).
Esherick House in Philadelphia (1959).
First Unitarian Church of Rochester (1959).
Norman Fisher House Hatboro, Pennsylvania (1960).
Parliament building of Bangladesh (1962).
Institute of Public Administration (IPA) in Ireland (1963).
Phillips Exeter Academy Library in New Hampshire (1967).
Kimbell Art Museum in Texas (1967).
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (1969).

Ely Jacques Kahn (1884-1972) Architect

Ely Kahn was an American architect. He graduated in 1911 in Paris and worked in New York, where he built many buildings after World War I. Here he often applied the cube shape and octagonal shape. After 1940, Ely Kahn worked togheter with Robert Allan Jacobs.

Main achievements
Municipal asphalt plant in New York, along with Robert Allan Jacobs (1944).

Albert Kahn (1869-1942) Architect

Albert Kahn was an architect born in Germany who moved to America and worked there since 1881. He built mainly factories. As he worked his First Five Year Plan in Russia (from 1928 untill 1931).

Main achievements
Dodge factory in Detroit (1938).
The 'Lincoln Mercury division of the Ford Motor Cy in St. Louis.
Building for General Motors Cy in Ohio.

Richard Morris Hunt (1828-1895) Architect

Richard Hunt was an English architect but worked mainly in France. And so his best designs were influenced by the late French Gothic and early Renaissance. He designed numerous houses for famous Americans.

Main achievements
Tribune Building in New York, here he used a tower building design for the first time.
Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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.

George Howe (1886-1955) Architect

George Howe was an American architect. He worked with William Lescaze from 1929-1933 and since 1941 with Stonorov and Khan. Besides megaprojects he built schools and ordinary homes.

Main achievements
Carver Court, together with Stonorov and Khan (1944).
Settlement for hundreds of African families.
Philadelphia Saving Fund Society Building, along with William Lescaze (1932).
Thomas House (1939).
Mount Desert Island building (1939).
Maine building (1939).

Huib Hoste (1881-1957) Architect

Huib Hoste was a French architect. He was born in Bruges and later studied in Ghent. He was educated in the Neo-Gothieke direction, which he mostly took the rational pursuit. His pre-war works are somewhat romantic tinted here we see a clear influence of Berlage. During World War I he worked in the Netherlands and he was influenced by building more businesslike. This can be seen clearly in the monumental memorial for the Belgium interned at Amersfoort. After the war, he encouraged the modern business direction and he defended his theses in various expenses.

Main achievements
Shop with house in Roeselare (1906).
Town house in Bruges (1907).
Tollbooth at the Jan van Eyck Square in Bruges.
Country house in Assebroek in Bruges (1912).
Monumental memorial for Belgium interned at Amersfoort (1916).
Shop for hardware (Vancanneyt) in Wervik (1920).
Pharmacy drugstore, now a restaurant in Wervik.
Our Lady's Church of Zonnebeke, along with Jules Fonteyne (1921-1924).
Housing complexes in Zelzate (1923).
Housing complexes in Kappelleveld on Lambert (1923).
North Sea Hotel and the house 'De Beir' in Knokke (1925).
Homes in Zele (1931).
Houses in Brussels (1933).
Urban design for Antwerp Left, along with Le Corbusier, unfortunately, this design has not been implemented.

Victor Horta (1861-1947) Architect

Victor Horta was one of the most prominent Belgian architects ever. He studied in Alfonds Balat and was director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. Victor Horta was one of the pioneers of the modern Belgian architecture along with Hankar Goovaerts and Jules Barbier.

Main achievements
Hôtel Solvay in Brussels.
His private home in America Street, Brussels.
Economies in Brussels (1899).
Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels.
Study for the Middle Station in Brussels.

Raymond M. Hood (1881-1934) Architect

Raymond Hood was an American architect. He worked from 1931 to 1934 along with J.A. Fouilhoux. Raymond was one of the architects who worked on the Rockefeller Center.

Main achievements
Rockefeller Center, as one of the many architects.
American Radiator Building in New York.

Denis Honegger (1907-1981) Architect

Denis Honegger was a Swiss architect. He worked for several years with Le Corbusier and later with Perret.

Main achievements
University of Friburg, along with Fernand Dumas. This building was mainly built with concrete as a building material. It was designed with a monumental, more traditional design.
Institut de Physique in Geneva.

Gerardus M. Holt (1904-1988) Architect

Garardus Holt was a Dutch architect. From 1948 Gerardus professor T. H. In Delft.

Main achievements
Stoop's Outdoor Bloemendaal.
Homes for aftercare patients Sanatorium 'Sunburst' in Hilversum, with Ir. Mugwort.
House in Aerdenhout.
St. Joseph Church in 'Forest and Shade' in Amsterdam, along with KP Tholen.
War Cemetery on the Seaway in Bloemendaal, along with A. Konter.
Reconstruction of Velsen after World War II.

Fritz Höger (1877-1949) Architect

Fritz Höger was a German architect. He built mainly in northern and central Germany. He applied many of his works with a brick construction. His buildings are distinguished by a simple, clear style.

Main achievements
Chilehaus in Hamburg (1924).
Lyceum in Hamburg (1927).
Der Hannoversche Anzeiger building in Hanover 1927).

Ludwig Hoffmann (1852-1932) Architect

Ludwig Hoffmann was a German architect. He worked in Leipzig. In 1896 he was appointed as a city architect in Berlin, where he designed a number of large buildings in different styles.

Main achievements
The Reichsgerichtsgebäude in Leipzig (1895).
Virchow-Hospital (1899-1906).
Märkische Provinzial Museum (1901-1907).
Berlin City Hall (1902-1911).

Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956) Architect

Josef Hoffmann was an Austrian architect. He was a student of Otto Wagner and representative of the New Direction in Austrian architecture. His works were characterized by cool professionalism that is especially evident in his houses. With its strict construction, usually he applyed many detail, especially in color and very vivid decorations. As leader of the "Wiener Werkstätte" he had a great influence on the development of handicrafts.

Main achievements
Mansions on the Hohe Warte in Vienna.
Austrian pavilion at the Werkbundausstelling in Cologne (1914).
Stocklet house in Brussels (1911).
Skywa house in Hietzing.

Wallace Kirkman Harrison (1895-1981) Architect

Wallace Harrison was an American architect. He work from 1935 to 1941 with J. André Fouilhoux. He was one of the contributors to the Rockefeller Center (1932-1940) and chief architect of the building of the United Nations in New York.

Main buildings
Building for the United Nations in New York (1947-1950).

Harwell Hamilton Harris (1903-1990) Architect

Harwell Harris was an American architect. He worked together with R. J. Neutra. From 1931 to 1933, Harwell secretary of the American group of CIAM (Les Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne).

Important works
House Fellowship Park in Los Angeles (1935).

Paul Hankar (1861-1901) Architect

Paul Hankar was a Belgian architect. He was a pupil of Henri Beyaert and worked with Vector Horta, in 1890, the renovation of Belgian architecture.

Important works
Private houses on the Avenue Louise.

Johan Willem Hanrath (1867-1932) Architect

Johan Hanrath was a Dutch architect who built many houses. His work is characterized by good proportions and careful detailing and is akin to that of Berlage and De Bazel.

Main achievements
Groenendaal mansion in Hilversum (1904).
Diaconessenhuis in Utrecht (1904).
Building for 'Charity to Power' now 'Care and Social Assistance in Amsterdam (1913).
Houses in Eindhoven and Amsterdam.
Technical school in Alkmaar.

Max Haefeli (1869-1941) Architect

Max Haefeli was a Swiss architect. He built churches, hospitals and sanatoriums in Zurich. Hotels in Davos, Zurich, Lucerne and Lugano. Schools and villas in Degensheim Nieder-Uzwill and Schönenwerd.

Main buildings
Werkbundsiedlung Neubühl in Zurich (1932).
Congress Building in Zurich, along with Werner M. Moser and Steiger.
New Apostolic Church in Geneva, along with Werner M. Moser and Steiger.

Eugen Gugel (1832-1905) Architect

Eugen Gugel was a Dutch architect with a German origin. Eugen was from 1864-1903 professor at the Polytechnic School in Delft. He built mainly in the Neo-Renaissance style.

Main buildings
Building for Electrical Engineering in Delft.
Building K. and W. in The Hague (1875).
Students Society in Leiden.
University building in Utrecht, together with JF Nieuwenhuis (1891).